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Re: /usr/doc



On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Joey Hess wrote:

> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > We have never released "suddenly" a new stable distribution, and I don't
> > think sarge will be an exception. People have the complete lifetime of
> > woody to change habits, if they are very used to do "cd /usr/doc".
> 
> zsh-folk may find the following trick useful:
> 
> joey@silk:~>doc=/usr/share/doc
> joey@silk:~>less ~doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz

Nice. however how is this different from setting doc to /usr/share/doc
and then using $doc to refer to it? The only thing I can see is that it
get's expanded if I use tab completion, but that's not a real problem.

					yours,
					peter

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