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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:15:22 -0430
From:      Andres Perera <andres.p@zoho.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backtick versus $()
Message-ID:  <AANLkTim%2BNOxM1c1cYCm5a=Vcx1AvRrJVazc=jdrvOpOu@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110225004219.bfbbbd77.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:18:03 -0600, Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> wro=
te:
>> Everyone is wrong! "pfmsh" is the best at everything, period.
>> It does everything you can possibly think of today and tomorrow.
>> It doesn't require any upgrades, ever. =C2=A0It's 100% secure.
>> It doesn't use any memory or other resources, $hit, it doesn't
>> even need to be installed; it just "magically" works.
>>
>> There you have it.
>
> The standard reply to "is better" or "is the best" is
> "I don't like" followed by any arbitrary attribute,
> like "but I don't like the color" or "I don't like
> the file names". :-)
>
> Meanwhile, I've looked into mksh and found out that
> giving it a standard prompt (user@host:path$) is not
> very easy and involves copying two lines from the
> manpage (search for PS1) into a config file. It's
> not that you can use bash's prompt 1:1 (or csh's).
> Completition and history behaviour is nice, better
> than bash, in my opinion, and equal to csh (which I
> prefer in this regards).

adding prompt escapes is trivial, fixing a parser requires a new implementa=
tion

funny how you point out trivialities and go on to mention one yourself

>
> Oh "prefer" - it's all very individual, that's why the
> system's default shell should be replaced by punched
> cards. Everyone likes colorful punched cards. :-)
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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