On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:18:03 -0600, Gary Gatten <ggat...@waddell.com> wrote: >> 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. It'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 implementation 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, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
