From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 23:51:46 2011 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 8861A1065694 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:51:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 839273@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372E38FC16 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so592248yxl.13 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:51:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=c7vUNPR4463jxFcYVXeVZKSxiCZFOP74VQw7PP++k/c=; b=XKbeelM25d+JZjHO2IOAfMLb4T2sh/lYO9El5IZwo/vneqB4gdp+RHBRPtUUZrwVy+ gmkOCnjZUHOZNGrwGwzmroz02orAEiiw+q/fSXX0lZB59nOa4XoxDrcFpDerFGZWMea+ w6iuwI0l2IifBLxLnCoED2iYaxOh9tnd0xXIA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=u8vlYoqmY74VH8DmKvYMUPNRc+w6KHiylq8j1doFA6gmC1QqHzkJqhFITt9UaIsWAv 1gnlTJdKh9uzUHHs7Xvgbr15u2m5U2BnvQLvlRofob69d7VUdIcvZXiN5z5cWP1Vg5pY 9Hjhuko3qh/XsM/4S/LhJIbg8kKbHUTJp9zLc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.154.3 with SMTP id g3mr2731061ybo.239.1298591122103; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:45:22 -0800 (PST) Sender: 839273@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.215.21 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:45:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110225004219.bfbbbd77.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4D61599E.4040008@gmail.com> <20110224234044.0df661c1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110224225425.GB13490@guilt.hydra> <20110225001301.e4f6d95f.freebsd@edvax.de> <21929_1298589484_4D66E72C_21929_309_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BD35499F@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <20110225004219.bfbbbd77.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:15:22 -0430 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4jpPjk5R14Ph3Q2LQMCvYIgt6mM Message-ID: From: Andres Perera To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Gary Gatten , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backtick versus $() X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: 839273@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:51:46 -0000 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:18:03 -0600, Gary Gatten wro= te: >> Everyone is wrong! "pfmsh" is the best at everything, period. >> It does everything you can possibly think of today and tomorrow. >> It doesn't require any upgrades, ever. =C2=A0It's 100% secure. >> It doesn't use any memory or other resources, $hit, it doesn't >> even need to be installed; it just "magically" works. >> >> There you have it. > > The standard reply to "is better" or "is the best" is > "I don't like" followed by any arbitrary attribute, > like "but I don't like the color" or "I don't like > the file names". :-) > > Meanwhile, I've looked into mksh and found out that > giving it a standard prompt (user@host:path$) is not > very easy and involves copying two lines from the > manpage (search for PS1) into a config file. It's > not that you can use bash's prompt 1:1 (or csh's). > Completition and history behaviour is nice, better > than bash, in my opinion, and equal to csh (which I > prefer in this regards). adding prompt escapes is trivial, fixing a parser requires a new implementa= tion funny how you point out trivialities and go on to mention one yourself > > Oh "prefer" - it's all very individual, that's why the > system's default shell should be replaced by punched > cards. Everyone likes colorful punched cards. :-) > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >