[dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Fernando C.V.
Probably I'm talking shit here... or maybe this is something you are considering with sbase already... but I kept thinking about this. Would it make sense to create a whole shell infrastructure based on little small commands? I mean, not just replacing no-brainer builtin things like "echo", etc,

[dev] Re: Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Fernando C.V.
> by doing system() calls to an extremelly minimal shell. Would it make sense? uh.. I mean, something like a while-cmd like this: while-cmd 'test whatever' <

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Strake
On 31/05/2013, Fernando C.V. wrote: > Would it make sense to create a whole shell infrastructure based on > little small commands? > > I mean, not just replacing no-brainer builtin things like "echo", etc, > but also things like "if", "while", "for", "set", by doing system() > calls to an extremel

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread markus schnalke
[2013-05-31 12:05] "Fernando C.V." > Probably I'm talking shit here... or maybe this is something you are > considering with sbase already... but I kept thinking about this. > > Would it make sense to create a whole shell infrastructure based on > little small commands? > > I mean, not just repl

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Fri, 31 May 2013 18:00:41 +0200 markus schnalke wrote: > [2013-05-31 12:05] "Fernando C.V." > > Probably I'm talking shit here... or maybe this is something you are > > considering with sbase already... but I kept thinking about this. > > > > Would it make sense to create a whole

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Evan Gates
> * tab completion Does this need to be built in? Would it suck less to have a wrapper that can do tab completion that we can reuse? Something along the lines of rlwrap but without readline. Or would it suck less to create/use a different library to accomplish this? > * ugly POSIX style >

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Christoph Lohmann dixit: >* tab completion Can busybox ash do this? (If so, that’s recent.) > * Does this really need plugins? Definitely not; in mksh, tab completion is deterministic: the first word is expanded as command, all other words as files. Only downside is that tab completion i

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Fri, 31 May 2013 20:29:53 +0200 Evan Gates wrote: > > * ugly POSIX style > > * backwards compatibility? > > I think it would be nice to have a simplest possible POSIX compliant sh. > I'm not well versed in the options that already exist, is there a minimally > compliant, sm

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Fri, 31 May 2013 20:32:05 +0200 Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Christoph Lohmann dixit: > > >* tab completion > > Can busybox ash do this? (If so, that’s recent.) It can do basic tab completion in directories. > >For now busybox ash is enough for all of this. > > I don’t think you sh

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: >> P.S. Any recommendations on joining #suckless when connecting to oftc >> through tor? > >Don’t be a terrorist pedophile so don’t use tor. Only feminists, >pe‐ >dophiles and terrorists use tor. > That's pretty offensive, don't you think? There are

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Christoph Lohmann dixit: >Remove this Build.sh crap and add some real Makefile and I will recon‐ >sider using it. You can let Build.sh generate a Makefile using the -M option, but that Makefile would then be specific to the system it ran on (actually “for”, not “on”, considering cross-compiling

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Fri, 31 May 2013 21:15:15 +0200 Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: > Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > > >> P.S. Any recommendations on joining #suckless when connecting to oftc > >> through tor? > > > >Don’t be a terrorist pedophile so don’t use tor. Only feminists, > >pe‐ >

Re: [dev] Is there any plan on a shell for sbase?

2013-05-31 Thread Noah Birnel
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 09:15:15PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Fighting for the freedom of everyone should be a common hobby of the av??? > erage intellectual. > > > But there are other ways to scramble your IP and connect to OFTC. Just > don???t let the average idiot know about how t