Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:48:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004070048.RAA02002@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 2000 19:57:08 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061955350.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:15:48PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > What is stopping you from adding libedit support to /bin/csh in the same > > > way it was added to /bin/sh? > > > > I deemed importing Tcsh easier than hacking on csh. Plus Tcsh is > > maintained. We don't really have a csh maintainer. Also libedit doesn't > > do command line completion. > > Why can't it do command line completion? > > el_set(e, EL_ADDFN, ...) is the hook you would use to do command line > completion. I'm not sure what the problem is here. Because the work has already been done. Basically, the counter-arguments are all bunk. There aren't any substantial syntactic differences between the ancient version of tcsh that we call 'csh' and the modern version. Installing it under a different name reduces to some degree its usefulness and makes the bloat issue worse. I'm not sure quite where this burst of fear-of-progress and basic luddite-ism came from; I guess we've been making so much progress elsewhere that the establishmentarianists had to find something they felt they could resist safely. Come on, ladies. Be daring; do something new first for a change. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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