From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 6:34:12 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 35A9714EF5 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 74867 invoked from network); 27 Jul 1999 13:32:53 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 27 Jul 1999 13:32:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:32:53 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! In-Reply-To: <19990727141955.A66937@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: > It has completion, it's just not as convenient as it could be... > > As to ! history, 1) Why do you want this foul abomination? and 2) Look > at ksh's "fc" cmd and it's "r" alias. Quite handy, although probably not The lack of !$ and its friends drive me bonkers. I have been known to drive people looking over my shoulder bonkers by typing screenfulls of nothing but history operations. > as powerful as csh's history. Of course you've got interactive history, > so it doesn't need to be. Interactive history implies typing! Unnecessary keystrokes are evil! David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message