From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Apr 6 15:16:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470C937BCB0 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA10797 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:19:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA34154 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:16:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FE637C160; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA20115; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:15:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:15:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Terry Lambert , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh In-Reply-To: <20000406151126.C25607@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:01:17PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I think putting in tcsh as csh would be putting FreeBSD in the > > same position of having a shell where script authors think they > > are using features which are available everywhere, but are > > specific to the "enhanced" shell > > Tcsh buys us *INTERACTIVE* enhancements, not scripting ones. What is stopping you from adding libedit support to /bin/csh in the same way it was added to /bin/sh? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message