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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:38:54
Message-Id: 20040318203847.43d7ab8f@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names by Jason Stubbs
1 On 03/19/04 Jason Stubbs wrote:
2
3 > > The downside is that "e<tab><tab>" still gets you a huge list of
4 > > bins, while "gentoo-<tab<tab>" gets you _only_ the tools. You need
5 > > to type"econfig-" and "eupdate-" on different terms at the same time
6 > > to get the ease of searchability the gentoo- prefix gives.
7 > >
8 > > Comments?
9 >
10 > eco<tab><tab> gave me nothing
11 > eup<tab><tab> gave me eupdatedb
12 > gent<tab><tab> gave me nothing (gen gave completely unrelated
13 > commands)
14 >
15 > So if we count it up:
16 > gent<tab>u<tab> at 7 keys and 13 chars
17 > eup<tab> at 4 keys and 7 chars
18 >
19 > And for some noise, this idea seems more aesthetically appealing to
20 > me. :)
21
22 Full ACK.
23
24 Marius
25
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29 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
30 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.