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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:15:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061815230.50194-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000406151126.C25607@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:01:17PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > I think putting in tcsh as csh would be putting FreeBSD in the
> > same position of having a shell where script authors think they
> > are using features which are available everywhere, but are
> > specific to the "enhanced" shell
> 
> Tcsh buys us *INTERACTIVE* enhancements, not scripting ones.

What is stopping you from adding libedit support to /bin/csh in the same
way it was added to /bin/sh?

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