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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SYS V Bourne Shell .shrc file
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.175807.13054@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 7 Jan 90 17:58:07 GMT
References: <1792@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <1864@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> <11888@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <11888@smoke.BRL.MIL> by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn):
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| In article <1864@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> wescott@micky.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott) writes:
| >In article <1792@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
| >> The .shrc is also invoked prior to /etc/profile and ~/.profile on login.
| >Nope.  After /etc/profile but before $HOME/.profile, mimicing csh's behavior.
| 
| Ugh -- it was obviously the wrong way around in csh, so why mimic that??
+---------------

I think the csh behavior cited above is more correct.  I've gotten sick of
kluging around Altos's csh, which invokes .cshrc before /etc/cshrc -- I set my
histchars to ^@ so I can use ! without having to remember to backslash it (I
do a lot of UUCP) and I *always* have to arrange for it to not be set if it's
a login shell, because /etc/cshrc usually contains a line like "stty kill ^u"
(Altos's default is ^X, ugh).  Boo, hiss.  Besides which, the user shouldn't
be given the opportunity to alter what /etc/cshrc does; if .cshrc is run
forst, the user can drop an alias in place of one of the commands in
/etc/cshrc.  (It's not a security hole, but it *can* violate the Principle of
Least Surprise.)

++Brandon
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