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From: | Aaron Bentley |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch on windows? |
Date: | Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:32:01 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040309) |
Ron Parker wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:58:01 -0400, Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> wrote:Ron Parker wrote: Many of us use the *entire* current-working-directory in our shell prompts, and this is the default on major Linux distributions. Such paths are ugly and awkward in this context.This is exactly why I change my PS1 when I am {arch} diving, just to avoid the noise on my screen, then the c--b--v directory names become handy.
With short pathnames, those who use the last fragment of the cwd in their prompts could change their PS1 when they are {arch} diving, and reap similar benefits.
They are also more difficult to navigate than necessary-- they more-or-less demand tab completion.Personally I am a lazy programmer, I tend to bang tab until it stops working then I start consciously typing again whether the form is c/b/v or c/c--b/c--b--v.
Yeah, I'm lazy too. I'd like to type cd f[TAB]/b[TAB]/[TAB]p[TAB]53 to navigate to foo/bar/0/patch-53.
I've no need to prove that my preference is best, just to show that there are other reasonable preferences.
Aaron -- Aaron Bentley Director of Technology Panometrics, Inc.
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