From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Apr 7 0: 0: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B4137C262 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17755 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:03:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA35707 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:59:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC95837C262; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA39846; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200004070658.XAA39846@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh In-Reply-To: <200004070649.XAA00403@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Apr 6, 2000 11:49:14 pm" To: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: arch@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > In message <20000406134916.A23265@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > > > : highly irritated at root's shell being one of poor UI. Of the [t]csh > > > : users I know, only about 10% use csh over tcsh and that is only because > > > : csh is in the base system. Those people would not even notice the extra > > > : tcsh features. > > > > Trust me I would notice the mis-features. Once installed tcsh 'cas I was > > told how great it was. Riped it out 4 hours later due to incompatibilities > > with these 40 year old, 20 year BSD csh trained fingers of mine would keep > > typing things that tcsh didn't like. > > > > It also would not grok my prompt env setting either... > > Substantiate or be disregarded. See other email to Warner, I've already stated I would install the tcsh port and give it a spin. We'll see how many minutes/hours/days it takes me before I toss it this time... (It will be tossed, even if it is 100% compatibile, it's got features I don't want to contaminate my extremly OS independent fingers with by using it too much...) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message