> Any good reason to not update /bin/csh to tcsh as default csh like FreeBSD
> and Dragonfly did?
I use csh/tcsh interactively (not for sripts), and I am heavily in
love with and dependent on csh's !-style history feature. None of
the other shells in base provide that. I pick !-history over
"line editing" any time. (I grew up with that.)
I only favour tcsh over csh because the TAB completion (instead of
ESC) aligns better with all the linux-bashs I have to use. (It's
very irritating to have to constantly switch between TAB and ESC
between systems. Compared with that, I don't care much about any
of the other tcsh extras, such as spelling correction. Well,
tcsh's command completion is certainly nice, too, but I wouldn't
kill for that.)
So yes: another vote to "go tcsh!" in base.
Martin Neitzel
