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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.uio.no!hermod.uio.no!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!due.unit.no!usenet From: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@imf.unit.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: shells Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:09:41 +0100 Organization: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Lines: 22 Sender: arnej@chur.imf.unit.no Message-ID: <efcsp3068ui.fsf@chur.imf.unit.no> References: <5dum9s$e1o@newsgate.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: chur.imf.unit.no X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35399 cgl@acpub.duke.edu (Cameron Lampley) writes: > 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. Well, csh has both command history (the ! commands) and filename completion (use "set filec", then hit escape to complete). And sh has command editing (use "set -o emacs") with command history. It is probably expected that everyone will install their favourite shell first thing, but that may not be the same for everyone. (I haven't bothered to install tcsh, one of the hackers here would probably only install es, and so on). Since on FreeBSD you can use sysinstall to get the packages I don't think it should be necessary the have them bundled in the base distribution. - Arne H. J.