Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:31:38 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <20000407153138.A52975@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <200004071325.GAA40640@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <20000407055928.A48528@mppsystems.com> <200004071325.GAA40640@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Fri 2000-04-07 (06:25), Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > It took me all of 4 commands and I was already running into diffences, > mainly in the ``command completion'' that O'Brien wants this for. Well, > tcsh and csh are quite diffent in how they do file name completion. >=20 > 2 key strokes is not a penalty I am going to pay. (esc vs esc esc). bindkey =1B complete-word > Having it add trailing / is another one I dislike. And what is that > damn space there for on non-dirs. I really dislike that. I often > complete a filename and tack something on, as in: > cp foo foo.bak > typed as: > cp f=1B f=1B.bak >=20 > tcsh makes me do: > cp f=1B=1Bf=1B=1B=08.bak unset addsuffix > You won't last long. I actually kept ponding away at it until it > caused me to do something stupid.... :-( All of 20 minutes maybe. >=20 > Now.... I did my part... I tried tcsh. I say that it is in no way > user transparent if we change /bin/csh, and it will down right frustrate > a few people. You didn't try very hard. Neil --=20 Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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