Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:25:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004070625.XAA39745@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <38ED6DDA.3771B1A5@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Apr 6, 2000 11:10:50 pm"
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[CC trimmed back to -arch] > David O'Brien wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:50:49PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > I don't want a fully functional workstation. I want a root account that > > > > is useful. > > > > > > It's completely useful. It has everything you need. What does tcsh > > > provide you that csh doesn't provide you that is needed for root? > > > > Command line completion, and something other than bazzar "!^?-" history > > substitution. Shell evolution (and other command line tools) have shown > > that either Emacs or Vi -style line editing is the way to go. No one has > > adopted the bazzar Csh history substitution syntax. > > ^No one^Only Wes^ ^s^s and Rod^, who really love the !-7:9-11 !-6:2 As it can do things you can't do with the stupid simplistic !-6:4-9 of other shells and probably often look at the output of the !-7:5 command to glue a new long complex command togeather out of tokens from many previous commands. For the csh impared: Only Wes and Rod has adopted the bazzar Csh history substition syntax., who really love the bazzar "!^?-" history substitution. As it can do things you can't do with the stupid simplistic Emacs or Vi -style line editing of other shells and probably often look at the output of the history command to glue a new long complex command togeather out of tokens from many previous commands. IMHO, If you don't use these features of csh you might as well run bash... :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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