docs/69068: handbook errata

Murray Stokely murray at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 15 07:10:24 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/69068; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Murray Stokely <murray at freebsd.org>
To: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan at student.tue.nl>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/69068: handbook errata
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:05:31 +0000

 On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:55:45AM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote:
 > 	In en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml rev 1.126,
 > 	line 1950 'complete to' should be replaced by 'complete further than'
 
 No, 'complete to' is correct.  'complete further than' would be
 incorrect.  The shell would not be able to complete further than 'foo'
 because it doesn't know if a 'b' or '.' would be next.
 
 > 	'foobar' and 'foo.bar' are identical up to 'foo', which is where
 > 	the shell can complete to. It cannot complete further than that without
 > 	first asking for more user input.
 
 That what the existing text says.  Please re-read it, and then confirm
 that I can close this PR.
 
 " Both foobar and foo.bar start with fo, but it was able to complete to
  foo. If you type in ., then hit Tab again, the shell would be able to
  fill in the rest of the filename for you."
 
   - Murray



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