From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 11 03:00:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01786 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 03:00:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA01697 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 02:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 1807 invoked by uid 1003); 11 Nov 1998 10:57:55 -0000 Message-ID: <19981111125755.A26453@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:57:55 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Eivind Eklund Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env References: <19981110090436.07651@welearn.com.au> <19981109232410.01531@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981109232410.01531@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:24:10PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon 1998-11-09 (23:24), Eivind Eklund wrote: > It lacks completion. That's the most important part. That's IMHO > essential. Apart from that, I like the ability of zsh to do more > advanced pattern matching, but that isn't as essential as as the lack > of completion (and every shell I know of except zsh lack full > completion - zsh can complete _everything_ - globs, shell escapes, > history escapes, cvs - you name it, zsh can complete it :-) With tcsh - (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm> ls *ep* ^X-* (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm> ls step-members (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm> find -n name ncpio newer nogroup nouser (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm> echo $PA PAGER PATH (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm> echo !-5 echo ls ls (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm/package> make all clean install rootie.o uptbump.o useless.o (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm> kill 10210 16121 16998 23864 etc etc and just for EE, (nbm@rucus) /home/nbm> cvs checkout commit export import rdiff remove update etc etc I miss anything? (there are other features, but I've not yet worked them all out.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message