Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 07:26:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990727072219.68526A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <19990727125231.A66520@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:26:13AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > I started to get addicted to zsh, and had to give it up. I do most of my > > work on machines that have ksh and sh, and nothing else. Let my tell you, > > ksh'88 makes bash look like sliced bread. > > Ksh is fine, and a lot better than a lot of people realise. The one > beef that I have with it, after coming from zsh/bash is that completion > is ESC ESC (or ESC \ in vi mode), instead of TAB. Dammit, everything > should use TAB!! Completion and the lack of ! history are the two things that get me. As scripting language ksh is quite nice. It could do with floating point math, which I hear ksh93 has. (Does anyone actually ship one?) David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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