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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:25:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters)
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh
Message-ID:  <200004070625.XAA39745@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <38ED6DDA.3771B1A5@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Apr 6, 2000 11:10:50 pm"

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> David O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:50:49PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > I don't want a fully functional workstation.  I want a root account that
> > > > is useful.
> > >
> > > It's completely useful.  It has everything you need.  What does tcsh
> > > provide you that csh doesn't provide you that is needed for root?
> > 
> > Command line completion, and something other than bazzar "!^?-" history
> > substitution.  Shell evolution (and other command line tools) have shown
> > that either Emacs or Vi -style line editing is the way to go.  No one has
> > adopted the bazzar Csh history substitution syntax.
> 
> ^No one^Only Wes^
^s^s and Rod^,
who really love the !-7:9-11 !-6:2 As it can do things you can't
do with the stupid simplistic !-6:4-9 of other shells and probably
often look at the output of the !-7:5 command to glue a new long complex
command togeather out of tokens from many previous commands.

For the csh impared:
Only Wes and Rod has adopted the bazzar Csh history substition syntax.,
who really love the bazzar "!^?-" history substitution.  As it can do things
you can't do with the stupid simplistic Emacs or Vi -style line editing of
other shells and probably often look at the output of the history command to
glue a new long complex command togeather out of tokens from many previous
commands.

IMHO, If you don't use these features of csh you might as well run bash... :-)

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net




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