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Subject: Re: tail
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I'm sure my mail filters can handle it, but this has been the typical
practice for most programs. vi cat and a few others, ee will actually give
an error, but its one of the few.  You'd have to speak to some of the
developers as to why it does this.

> Well, most people don't, do they? You go tail /v<tab>ar/l<tab>og/ht<tab>pd
> and your fat fingers hit enter instead "accesslog". If there was a point
to
> that behaviour, I wouldn't argue about it, but since there doesn't seem to
> be any, I might just flame away for a little longer. ;-)



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