From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 18:22:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5B01065672 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:22:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 489FB8FC16 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:22:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15378 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jun 2010 18:22:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2010 18:22:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=JC8RSxkrCzQPSQBTPGEHfkSoXQzjZ6hJYfu0B608VhPyOFRtufVffIlW/JgRp/TUTE0RJXGwQ8mA8s9x+lzaCIfX13anfi0vJniqAnbDZwmwjYO7OeoPQbCd1Qaw0OO2; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLKU6-00014h-IH for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:22:11 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:21:48 -0600 Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:21:48 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100606182148.GB28095@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100605231715.GD69990@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100606163136.GA27788@guilt.hydra> <20100606175043.GA46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100606175043.GA46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: which is the basic differences between the shells? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:22:12 -0000 --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:50:43AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > >=20 > > > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good i= deas > > > from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than cop= yleft. > >=20 > > Do you use that as your interactive shell, for scripting, or both? >=20 > Interactive only. For scripting, I stick to sh unless it gets too comple= x -- > then I jump to Ruby. I'm curious about why you prefer zsh for an interactive shell. What zsh features would you miss if you used tcsh instead (what I've been using)? I'm always willing to be convinced to try something better. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwL5zwACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKULUwCgsHqyyi7lA8YkDqgOv1alnzIW i3kAn21XTbJt1pDpgrgew30mxAzIqu+O =PWSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU--