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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: completion
Message-ID: <9827@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 00:47:52 GMT
References: <1971@cup.portal.com> <1169@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Completion is nice.  It lets one abbreviate; one need not remember
the exact spelling of some command or option; and so forth.

Completion is bad.  The moment there is a new command or option,
the old subnames no longer work.

(Emacs---Gosling and GNU, at least---does completion, and I expect
a number of people have experienced both the good and the bad.)
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In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690)
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