From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 11 03:46:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA05943 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 03:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05927 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 03:46:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from fenja.ifi.uio.no (2602@fenja.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.174]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id MAA02956; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:46:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by fenja.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:46:19 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy J Luoma Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env References: <19981110090436.07651@welearn.com.au> <199811101223.HAA09493@ocalhost> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 11 Nov 1998 12:46:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: Timothy J Luoma's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 07:23:00 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA05931 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Timothy J Luoma writes: > Tab-completion saves many many keystrokes and typos. Yes. I wouldn't think it'd be too much work to add this to sh. > Being able to move to the left&right along the current line is very nice. You can do that in sh. > Being able to write a function at the commandline is quite helpful. You can do that in sh. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message