From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Apr 7 6:32:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5864C37B51A for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 06:32:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24397 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:36:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA36571 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:32:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA19237B51A for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 06:32:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12dYrK-000Dne-00; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:31:38 +0200 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:31:38 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Mike Pritchard , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <20000407153138.A52975@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000407055928.A48528@mppsystems.com> <200004071325.GAA40640@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200004071325.GAA40640@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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