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lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion
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mattack |
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lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion |
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Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:33:58 -0700 (PDT) |
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
>curiouser'n'curiouser! on this IRIX 5.3 using csh
>i have a subdirectory arms , containing lurid files re weaponry Worldwide
>(up here, we see arms as something governments should severely restrict):
>if i enter arm then Tab, it completes to arms/ ;
>if i enter e arms in an attempt to create a file arms ,
>the editor (a nifty subset of Emacs) starts with the listing of arms/ .
>it seems this flavor of UNIX doesn't expect arms & arms/ to differ.
Actually, I suspect that the program is just trying to be helpful. I
notice that both vi and vim tell me that the file is a directory if I try
to view it. I think your program is realizing it's a directory, and presuming
you want to open a file within the directory.
(I think far too few UNIX programs are "helpful". I'm all for power, but
having to give -f to tar every single damn time I use it is ridiculous!
Sure, it started out as a "Tape ARchiver", but jeez! And some way to have rm
automagically deal with directories, without giving the -r option, would
be nice. It seems obvious to me that if I give a directory to 'rm', I mean
that I want to delete the directory and its contents. Since any sane person
has -i on by default, it won't lead to accidents either.)
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Greg Marr, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, David Combs, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, mattack, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev directories & folders, Philip Webb, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, lang, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, Philip Webb, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev directories & folders, Heather Stern, 1999/04/26
- lynx-dev slash vs no-slash (was link runaround), Philip Webb, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion,
mattack <=
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Philip Webb, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, pg, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/25
- lynx-dev NOT slash vs no-slash (was: Jeez now I've started ...), Klaus Weide, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev NOT slash vs no-slash (was: Jeez now I've started ...), Chuck Martin, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, David Combs, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion, Chuck Martin, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Klaus Weide, 1999/04/26
Re: lynx-dev dev.24 Archive link runaround, Larry W. Virden, 1999/04/26