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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: shells
Date: 14 Feb 1997 05:24:56 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable John Woodstock
wrote on 13 Feb (in article <5duocj$nj1@two.woodyware.com>):
>>Why in God's name are there no decent shells included in the
>>standard FreeBSD distribution. What idiot would use csh or sh.
>>Everybody knows it all bash and tcsh these days. Of course
>>getting the port is simple enough, but even that is very painful
>>with no command history and no filename completion. Ha, csh
>>what kind of shit is that. Get with the program FreeBSD.
And sh has history -- either in vi-mode or in emacs mode:
set -o vi
or
set -o emacs
Dunno about filename completion...
-mi
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