Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:54:32 +0200 From: Olivier Cortes <olive@deep-ocean.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Program recommendations Message-ID: <20010721125432.A20261@APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wa> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010720214338.5753A-100000@p1>; from frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:48:55PM -0400 References: <20010720172206.D409-100000@asbestos.wolf> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010720214338.5753A-100000@p1>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:48:55PM -0400, Russell Francis wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 jeff@tsunamicreek.com wrote: > > > > Shell > > > > bash or tsch shell, matter of opinion. > > A handy feature is the [TAB] auto completion of filenames. > I know bash has this, not sure of tsch??? why not zsh ? nobody here uses it ? it seems like bash, but a little more "intelligent" (one could say i'm a little more lazy). its options are outstanding. a bit hard to understand at first glance, but very useful (like "cd" completing with only dirs...). for editing, i use emacs and vi (considering the problem -respectively- as writing an entire .c file or just correcting a typo or editing rc.conf). the best mailer i ever used is mutt. i still use it. note that i didn't test gnus. text mailers have -at this time- still much more features than graphics mailers. in addition to mutt, consider using fetchmail and procmail. this trio (fetchmail/procmail/mutt) is... is... i lack words, but in conjonction they are probably one of the best part of my admin experience. if you can't understand my sentences, forgive me, i don't speak english very well... --- Olivier Cortes free software admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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