./co<TAB> → ./config*BEEP*

Forget for a moment how helpful GNU Autoconf is. Whoever decided that it would be a good idea to name the resulting helper scripts "config.nice" and "config.status" deserves a smack upside the head. Did this person not use tab-completion in their shell?!? I can't tell you how many times I've gone to a previously ./configure'd source directory to re-./configure and typed ./co<TAB> and got ./config followed by a *BEEP!*. So aggravating! At least ./config isn't the name of a script that does some destructive thing.

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