Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:40:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004070640.XAA39777@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200004070609.AAA97669@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Apr 7, 2000 00:09:22 am"
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[CC: trimmed to -arch] > In message <200004070553.WAA39643@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: > : Trust me I would notice the mis-features. Once installed tcsh 'cas I was > : told how great it was. Riped it out 4 hours later due to incompatibilities > : with these 40 year old, 20 year BSD csh trained fingers of mine would keep > : typing things that tcsh didn't like. > > I noticed that tcsh used to be much less compatible with csh than it > is today. Several years (1989) ago I installed it and went nuts with > the subtle differences. Tried it again a little later (1991) and have > been hooked ever since. The second time I tried it I didn't even Last time I tried it was in 1993, after the FreeBSD project started, well after you had ``been hooked'' :-) > notice that it was tsch, and the release notes specifically stated > that much work had been done to make it BSD csh compatible. Before it > felt combatible[sic] with system V csh, which I believe was a 4.1 or > earlier csh (but the ethno-cyberhistorians will tell me if I'm wrong). It still felt like sysVish csh to me in '93... > > Maybe it might be worth trying out for a few hours over the next day > or two the latest tsch and see if it is still I'll give you the benifit of a doubt... ports on the way to my scratch box incase it does something stupid with one of my wild command line History Substitutions and decides to newfs/rm/dd the wrong things... > : It also would not grok my prompt env setting either... > > I don't recall that bug. As an experiment, I just ripped out my "if > I'm running in tcsh, do xXX" code and it seemed to look just like > csh. Complete with the whacked out alaises that I have for changing > the prompt based on the dir I'm in. > > : I don't :-) At least we agree to disagree :-) > > True. But at least we're talking about what we disagree on. And not just doing the <aol> me too </aol> thing all the others seem to enjoy doing during these types of threads... (Sorry to beat this issue so much, but I've now seen at least 6 of them with 0 technical content, one even asking if his vote still counted... -- 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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