Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 01:01:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004070701.BAA98243@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:25:54 PDT." <200004070625.XAA39745@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200004070625.XAA39745@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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In message <200004070625.XAA39745@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes:
: [CC trimmed back to -arch]
: > David O'Brien wrote:
: > >
: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:50:49PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
: > > > > I don't want a fully functional workstation. I want a root account that
: > > > > is useful.
: > > >
: > > > It's completely useful. It has everything you need. What does tcsh
: > > > provide you that csh doesn't provide you that is needed for root?
: > >
: > > Command line completion, and something other than bazzar "!^?-" history
: > > substitution. Shell evolution (and other command line tools) have shown
: > > that either Emacs or Vi -style line editing is the way to go. No one has
: > > adopted the bazzar Csh history substitution syntax.
: >
: > ^No one^Only Wes^
: ^s^s and Rod^,
^Rod^and imp
I regularly use things like "rm !ls:$" or "cvs commit !vi:*" in my
everyday world of tcsh. I can't type into a ksh window and my
coworkers make fun of me for it :-).
rm foo.{a,b,c,d}{a,b,c,d}
cvs !!
cvs commit !!:2-$
also has been known to cross the tips fo my fingers. And on Rare
Occasions, oddities such as
!!:s/foo/bar/g
!ls:1-3:s/.c/.cc/
But I've never quite got the knack for using the "basename" of a file
since I trouble recalling the exact syntax.
And all of this in tcsh, where I also do unnatural things with my
command line history.
Warner
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