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Re: [RFC/PATCH] completion: complete pretty format placeholders

From
Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date
May 21, 2009, 03:59 UTC
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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> bash oddity?  Back when I started the completion I had a lot
> of trouble with stuff like --pretty=<TAB>, or foo:<TAB> because
> bash more often than not tried to second guess what I was doing.
> I wonder if you are running against that here.
Thanks for the heads up.
> To be honest, I'm not sure what value this provides.  Its just as
> many characters to type, isn't it, and it doesn't offer me any help
> as to which placeholder should be inserted to get the value I want.
> "Was it ae or aE that I wanted here?  WTF, manpage time!".
Yeah, you're probably right. Throw it on the dust pile ;-)
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