Subject: Re: "default shell" [was: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/user]
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/30/2006 20:49:00
Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> The question that I'm wondering about is, what is our long term goal here:
> Do we want to offer people a shell that they can feel comfortable with
> from the start (ie. base), or do we want to keep a minimal one and tell
> people clearly that if they want more they should install the package?
> If we want a comfortable shell, should it be csh- or sh-flavoured?
> Should the (default) command line editing of a comfortable shell be vi-
> or emacs-flavoured?

FWIW, I liked the idea suggesting to replace our /bin/csh with tcsh.

-e.

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Elad Efrat