Re: PATCH: README

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> P.S.: "...and will most likely not feel like altering them (or, in
>       some cases, even reading them, unless you are a shell wizard)",
>       is it really that... erm... bad? overwhelming? complicated?
>       badly written?

The (small amount of) feedback so far seems to suggest that people who
weren't born reading shell scripts find this stuff hard to understand.  I
didn't want to put anyone off from using it just because it looks hard.
Maybe the message can be made more developer-friendly.

--- Completion/README~	Mon Mar  1 14:10:36 1999
+++ Completion/README	Mon Mar  1 14:15:14 1999
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
 
 Core:
   The basic functions and files to be sourced.  You will certainly need
-  these, and will most likely not feel like altering them (or, in some
-  cases, even reading them, unless you are a shell wizard).  The files are:
+  these, and will most likely not want to alter them --- if you do, it
+  would probably help to give your version a different name.  The files
+  are:
   compinit
     As already described, this is not a function, but is sourced once
     (with the `source' or `.' commands) to set up the completion system.


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