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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Andrey G. Grozin wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Henri Lesourd wrote:
>
> > 3. [PROBLEM] the ~ naming mechanism interferes badly with the
> >  shell : it doubles the number of .tm files that appear as
> >  an output of ls (or inside a file explorer under X) ; on
> >  the other hand, it disturbs the TAB completion mechanism ;
>
> I don't see how it disturbs the tab completion

It disturbs the tab completion because it is ambiguous : when
you type :
[[
  bash> emacs foo{TAB}
]]

, and when the tab completion mechanism tells you that there are
other choices, you don't know if it is because :

(1) there are two files foo and foo~ ;

(2) there are several files starting with the prefix foo, for
   example "foo", "foo2" "foo3"... ;

It would be better to be able to rule out the case (1) all
the time. One can tell me that in fact, I could type TAB
twice, to get :
[[
  bash> emacs foo{TAB}{TAB}
  foo foo~
  bash> emacs foo
]]

, then I would know that foo & foo~ exist, but the very problem
is that I had to think about that, thus I lost some thinking for
nothing really interesting.

Of course, this is not a huge problem, but...

> (which I use and like, I install bash-completion everywhere I can to 
> make it even more useful). In 99% of cases, the next editing session 
> should start from the latest saved version;

This is the problem : it doesn't seem that TeXmacs does that all
the time : copy foo.to to foo.tm~, and sometimes TeXmacs completely
the more recent foo.tm~ file... In this case, when it starts,
shouldn't TeXmacs tell you that there exists a more recent
version of foo.tm ?