From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Apr 6 14:48:49 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 BFF1137BF2A for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:48:39 -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 XAA10416 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:52:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA34024 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:48:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8408D37C13D for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:47:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@14-078.006.popsite.net [216.126.137.78]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA30287; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA25273; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:47:40 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <20000406144740.B25177@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20000406134916.A23265@dragon.nuxi.com> <200004062121.OAA90627@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004062121.OAA90627@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:21:36PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:21:36PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I don't think we can replace /bin/csh with tcsh, for compatibility > reasons. Thousands upon thousands of scripts use csh and the risk > is just too great that we might break some of them. Show me one. > Remember /bin/sh vs /bin/bash? I'll admit /bin/csh vs /bin/tcsh is > less of a problem, but it's still a problem. Bash is a totally different code base then sh. tcsh is our BSD csh + enhancements. Where is the problem? > I would also propose that the default csh.cshrc (which tcsh sources) > still be used for both tcsh and csh since it's so trivial to test which > one is sourcing the file. I do *NOT* recommend creating a separate > .tcshrc. Agreed. > And I would also propose that we turn command-line partial-history- > completion on by default. Yes, one of the primary reasons for what I want to do. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message