From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 5:27:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDEB1153F5 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 36521 invoked from network); 27 Jul 1999 12:26:02 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 27 Jul 1999 12:26:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 07:26:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! In-Reply-To: <19990727125231.A66520@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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