On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:00:44AM -0500, Matthew Story wrote: > Just noticed that tab-completion in /bin/sh has been added in 9.0 (verified > that it is not there in 8.0, dunno if it's there in 8.2, could probably go > digging to figure it out). In addition to the command history via > <up>:<down> (which is present in 8.0) FreeBSD sh is now actually a pretty > usable interactive shell. I also noticed that the following bit has been > removed from the sh(1): > > This version has many features which make it appear similar in some > respects to the Korn shell, but it is not a Korn shell clone like pdksh. > > Just wondering if the general direction here is attempting to provide a > minimal POSIX shell, that is useful enough interactively to become the > default root shell (supplanting csh)? Or if there is just a general trend > towards adopting more of the ksh feature-set. > > Relatively new to list, so if this has been discussed, apologies. >
I inquired about this a few times before about MFC'ing the changes to 8-STABLE... needless to say it did not fall in the mix. I maintained some patches for a while until some major rollage happened and started including changes to other such areas like csh echo etc... at that time I dropped it because it became too much of a hassle. It would be nice if the completion made it down to 8.X. As for replacing roots shell (csh) I do not even see that as needed and a goal of mine to spend as little time as neccesary in root. The shell while I am in root never made a difference to me. Others may see differently. -- ;s =; _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
