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From: Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:44:15 -0500
To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. Smorgrav )
Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env
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	Author:	dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. Smorgrav )
	Date:	12 Nov 1998 02:07:09 +0100
	ID:	<xzppvatvhvm.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no>

> > > > Tab-completion saves many many keystrokes and typos.
> > > Yes. I wouldn't think it'd be too much work to add this to sh.
> > But it already exists in zsh
>
> Adding functionality to sh (I might add, functionality which does not
> interfere with the command parser / interpreter part of sh) is a hell
> of a lot less work than trying to figure out all the compatibility
> implications of replacing it with zsh or nameyourfavoritesh.

We were talking about newbies for one thing, ie what FBSD ships with.   
Rather than reinventing what already exists in zsh, why not just include zsh?


> See that Cc: line up there? It says we're not discussing NeXT :)

Wow, thanks for pointing that out.... We were talking about the difference  
in sh and zsh.  I can only speak to that from my experience, which isn't  
under FreeBSD

> > Sounds like you've already got a more functional sh than the "standard"
> > sh (if such a thing can still be said to exist)
>
> To the best of my understanding, there is a "standard sh", but it's
> proprietary.

And to the best of my understanding, the "standard" sh doesn't have many of  
the features you have mentioned.

It just doesn't seem to be very useful to recode the wheel.

TjL


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