From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 12:48:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDBE14C1B for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01550; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:46:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:46:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Ollivier Robert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! In-Reply-To: <19990727075026.A27880@keltia.freenix.fr> 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, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Len Huppe: > > As a newcomer to FreeBSD, I am intersted in knowing why so many of you > > *hate* bash. > > I don't hate bash, it is just that it lacks so many cool features of zsh/tcsh > (programmable completion, Agreed, but like you said, it's coming. :) > variables, Errr... Not sure what you mean by this one. > fancy prompt) How fancy do you want? :) Take a look at http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/Bash-prompts.txt. > and have some key bindings > different from the other shells. Heh, "It's different" is a good description of how people usually criticize things. Also, most of the key bindings are configurable, including built in emacs and vi modes. > I don't care about POSIX compliancy, something bash has always insisted on. Personally I think this is another plus in bash's favor. > Ollivier, very heavy tcsh user for 10 years, recently converted to zsh. Note that I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, but I do like to promote factual discourse. If you think this is bad, try comp.unix.shells. *chuckle* Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message