Subject: Re: command-line editing and "standard" shells.... (was: CVS commit: src)
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1999 08:16:26
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 10:56:58PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Wednesday, March 17, 1999 at 18:20:56 (-0400), David Maxwell wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
> >
> > But those features aren't enabled in the default config. Out of the box,
> > csh is more friendly.
> 
> I don't believe a word of that!  ;-)
> 
> The only "friendly" feature that NetBSD's csh has (and one that I don't
> normally associate with a plain old csh -- it was definitely news to me
> yesterday!) is filename (and user-name) completion.  I'd vote for adding

Eeek.

You definitely want username completion in roots
save-the-system-when-it-is-hanging-because-NIS-is-botched shell. Definitely not.

Did you ever try to login to a tcsh account when the !(/"%!(" Solaris ypserv is
busy serving somebody elses request?

	-is