On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> Hello,
>
> new users of NetBSD often complain about the shell. The default shell (for
> non-root users) is csh, which has no interactive command line editing.
> Pressing an arrow key in csh generates a beep and inserts some
> linenoise-like sequence like [A, which is nonintuitive and not what people
> usually want.
>
> Therefore, I propose to change the default shell to /bin/sh, which has
> quite reasonable line editing functionality. It would mean a small change
> to usr.sbin/user/user.c . I would also remove the "toor" account from
> master.passwd, which is now unnecessary, as the default root shell is
> /bin/sh now.
>
> Any strong reasons against this change?

 	I assume you're also propsing to add 'set -o emacs' to the default
 	.profile files?

 	Personally I use tcsh as my shell on ~all systems, but I'd be
 	happy for the default to be sh with 'set -o emacs' over csh...

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