From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 17 11: 2:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (roble.com [206.40.34.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53AB837B7B6 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sendmail@roble.com) Received: from roble2.roble.com (roble2.roble.com [206.40.34.52]) by roble.com (Roble1b) with SMTP id LAA03025 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:02:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis Reply-To: Roger Marquis To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Weisgerber wrote: >Doug Barton wrote: >> Commentary on my files. . . Using allexport instead of an explicit >> 'export' for every variable makes the file easier to read, and gives a >> novice user one less thing to worry about. "allexport" seems to be missing from Solaris and other sh implementations. Perhaps "set -a" would be better. >I think Sue has a made a good argument against allexport. Do you have examples of a problem from "set -a"? I've used "set -a" and {t,}csh's `setenv` for years with no difficulties. >> # General aliases >> alias la='ls -A' >> alias lf='ls -AF' >> alias ll='ls -loaF' >> alias m=$PAGER >> alias g='egrep -i' > >These are *very much* a matter of taste. I don't like a single one >of them, but then again I wouldn't want to force mine on anybody >else. Exactly. Do we really need *any* default shell aliases? I hope not, especially since some of these conflict with my own. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message