Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:09:22 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004070609.AAA97669@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:53:43 PDT." <200004070553.WAA39643@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200004070553.WAA39643@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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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 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). 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 : 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. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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