On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:15:22 -0430, Andres Perera <andre...@zoho.com> wrote: > funny how you point out trivialities and go on to mention one yourself
For an interactive command line shell, it's the "trivialities" that count - for _me_, which indicates that other persons may have very different preferences and requirements. My general impressions are quite good, but they are from a usage point of view, not paying attention to how things are implemented internally. >From my short visit in mksh (which I'm glad to know about now) I found that it does the most things that _I_ do require very well, and even better than bash (although it is more popular). Such trivial things include a standard UNIX prompt (maybe with collapsing $HOME to ~), least interactive comletition behaviour (in opposite to bash), and nice history functions (such as entering a few letters and then parse history with of all command that start that way). Those are things that worked out of the box (except PS1), and that's a really good thing. Additionally, installation went fast, didn't incorporate tons of dependencies, and resulted in a nice small binary - as this would be important today... :-) But it's worth being mentioned. So far, I will see if I will keep using this shell, as it is really promising. Still I would not suggest to remove csh from the system and replace it with mksh. If licensing allows it, it's maybe worth adding mksh to the system, but that is a decision _I_ am not the right person for. -- 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"
