Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!subbarao From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Multiple executables in path (Was: NON-SOURCE POSTINGS CONSIDERED HARMFUL!) Message-ID: <5679@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 24 Jan 91 22:43:11 GMT References: <5570@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <5609@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Lines: 29 >>Obligatory plug for bash: it's worth it. It's a very nice shell, with >>full emacs editing and very good vi editing if that's your dialect. >>It's certainly more fun than tcsh, which I used before, and has a more >>POSIX-ified behavior. There are still some bugs, although Chet's >>version is nearly bug free, and version 1.06 is long overdue. I liked >>it so much, I use the shell (or something to that effect). > Cough Cough! Ahem Ahem! I *beg* to differ. Rather, I *demand* to differ. *Obligatory?* Yeah right. After you get frustrated half an hour with its damn non-destructive backspace, then ditz with it another hour on its half-assed command line editor, and you're left with a huge piece of code that's not worth its weight in ^@'s. Bourne Again? More like Burned Again. Get tcsh. Now that's a real shell. >I mostly agree, although I'm partial to zsh for some strange reason. :-) Wonder why :-) Once Paul finishes a decent line editor, I'll use it too. -Kartik -- internet# find . -name core -exec cat {} \; |& tee /dev/tty* subbarao@{phoenix or gauguin}.Princeton.EDU -|Internet kartik@silvertone.Princeton.EDU (NeXT mail) -| SUBBARAO@PUCC.BITNET - Bitnet