GNU bug report logs - #27979
tab completion for "(yes or no)?"

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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 27979 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?"
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 22:02:39 +0900 (JST)

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On Sun, 6 Aug 2017, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:

>>>>>> "TC" == Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> writes:
> TC> offering TAB completion would somehow contradict this idiom.
>
> Well I discovered for a second and subsequent yes, one can just hit the up arrow.
What?? Oh noo!
> (But I hope that is not now going to be removed too, now that I revealed it.)
You should keep your secrets better :-).  I already canceled the auto 
completion in the recursive deletion or dirs: now the full word is 
required.  I must thank your this report, it opened my eyes about my 
previous mistake ;-)

I really prefer that users input the full word when they are about to
run such kind of commands: commands that might destroy months-years of 
someones work.

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