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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD cmd line editor / text editor recommends? Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:03:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4qgne5$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4psnen$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> <87g27wffhr.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Whatever you choose, I'd *not* use a csh-like shell (like tcsh). The > csh has a completely different syntax. Usually shell scripts are > written for the Bourne shell or the Korne shell (ksh). It is nice if > your interactive shell uses the same syntax. The latter (and since you need it to prove your stated opinion, the former claim as well) is a ``YMMV'' item. I personally fail to see why using a different shell for interactive work (tcsh) than for scripting (sh) should cause me any problems. Actually, i used to do it this way for years now. Both languages are far from being the only computer languages i know about, and i tend to write larger scripts in Perl instead anyway since it's more efficient. Once i finished learning Tcl, i think i will also often find occasions where this would fit better. Of course, this is so much a matter of personal taste that it's useless to recommend either of them in Usenet. But it's also useless to think you have to warn users to not use a csh or compatible one, for the only reason that this is _your_ decision. It's about in the same boat as warning users to not use Linux, since this was just your decision... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)