From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 01:46:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F010106564A for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:46:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthewstory@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F0B8FC18 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfl17 with SMTP id fl17so4977542vcb.13 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:46:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=2jGqz4tTbVF8+vjK8m0TDd/9t9hWicRsaUs1vLls6i0=; b=MSUxNRCZSKxf6gF1AyYk5HTau776imBIhsOlV+YrMxWiLDI8Qar1kSWUeBX+nWdHn5 TAMKYfG+tcOFzAT+31sonUsVOX7L31Mjmb+kWiuQbBY2ETtnHTYvJd7orpUtqUWO4g42 NRbTRKSNv1fubSpVZqQjebDq2hylEx8UA0mMo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.231.131 with SMTP id jq3mr13984482vcb.44.1326937578621; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.159.69 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:46:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120118221630.GA97471@stack.nl> References: <20120118221630.GA97471@stack.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:46:18 -0500 Message-ID: From: Matthew Story To: Jilles Tjoelker , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: intent of tab-completion in /bin/sh in 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:46:19 -0000 On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > [...snip] > > On the contrary, our /bin/sh is minimalistic compared to many other > shells used in that role, like bash, pdksh, mksh and ksh93. It (the 9.0 > version) has only slightly more features than dash or NetBSD's sh, and > dash has instead some other features. > I prefer FreeBSD sh over these others for its minimalism (although I do like dash as well), particularly when not being used interactively. > [...snip] > > POSIX itself has gradually adopted ksh features, so seeing more of them > in future is not unlikely. Most of the new language features in 9.0 are > either from POSIX.1-2008 or on the roadmap for a new version of POSIX > (in collaboration with other shell authors). Tab completion is a welcome addition, I was unaware that this had been (or is slated to be) added to the POSIX specification. This makes far more sense than my proposed explanations. Thanks for the clarification. > Some plans for sh in 10.0 are in this mailing list post: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2011-December/011976.html Let me know what (if anything) I can do anything to help with the continued development of sh, cheers. > > > -- > Jilles Tjoelker > -- regards, matt