[RFC] make miss alias to missing?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:41:36AM -0200, Julio Biason wrote:
> 
>>On 10/01/06, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>Why not autocomplete on every command?  I.E. why not hack get_cmd_object
>>>>to search though all of the commands and see if only one command has a
>>>>leading match? That would allow for things like "bzr com" "bzr l" and such
>>>
>>>That will certainly break with new versions of bzr/plugins. There is
>>>some value in predictability.
>>
>>Using the "whole" command name would make them predictable.
> 
> 
> So I've been using ci for commit since the dawn of time, but it is okay
> to break that, I should have been spelling it in full?

I think aliases are fine, because there's a limited number, and that
makes it easy to avoid redefining an existing alias by accident.

Allowing autocompletion would produce a huge number of aliases, which
makes it much harder to find an alias that's not already in use.

Aaron
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