Re: [Help-bash] How to keep only files match the prefix when do command completion?

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/22/11 1:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> Why the author didn't have a better solution previously? If the author
> had changed to the readers' perspective, then these suggested changes
> should be obvious and should have already been changed before they are
> caught by the readers.

Software and documentation, like everything else, evolve
incrementally over time.  Why didn't you emerge into the world as
a fully-formed adult from day one?  Because things improve as we
gain experience with them.  Not everything can be satisfed with
immediate gratification.

> 
> The reason that I, as a reader of the manual, insists the author
> justify the current state of manual is that unless the author has
> changed the mind set on how to write the manual, part of the manual
> will continue to be incomprehensible or at least it will take readers
> much more time than necessary to read.

I understand that it's nice to have an absolute sense of the correctness
of your position.  I'm more skeptical, and I am less certain about the
statistical significance of your sample size of one.

-- 
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