SPUG:Minimal Typing for Selections; ideas?

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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:53:50PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Tim Maher sent the following bits through the ether:
> 
> > 1)  SPUG   2) SPU   3) SPUD  4) SPUGADELIC
> > he wanted to be able to type the minimal initial string that
> > would uniquely identify a choice.
> 
> I'm not sure what you want, but does Text::Abbrev (in core) help?

<DOC-CRITIC-MODE>
I'm pretty sure it could help, but it's hard to tell from the
man page, which shows nothing more than the function calling syntax. 
At least an example of what a "unique, truncated initial string" *is*
would have been nice. But if you wrote the module, all is forgiven 8-}
</DOC-CRITIC-MODE>

But thanks for bringing this to my attention!  Being a teacher,
I'm always looking for simple code samples that succinctly
demonstrate a feature, so I'm rather inclined in my own programming
to reinvent existing wheels just to see if my implementation turns out
to be useful for teaching.  But it's nice to know what's in the core too.

Will we see you at YAPC this year?  Will you be perhaps even be
my official "handler" for my tutorial presenation, as in Amsterdam? 8-}

> 
> Leon
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