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- From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Subject: Re: Why csh? (Re: unshar needed & sh dis...)
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- References: <jpenne.725237760@ee.ualberta.ca> <1992Dec25.040542.4566@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 13:51:56 GMT
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- bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters) writes:
-
- [oops!]
- >BSD was very much in advance of AT&T Unix, however, with the advent
- >of ksh, this IMO is not at all true now.
-
- I guess I missed a csh debate or two in school :) I'm very interested
- in examples of why csh might not be reasonable to base GNO's gsh script
- language on.
-
- >As a person that is PANTING to come up with the money to buy GNO,
- >and will in the near future, I really will expect ksh like things
- >when I do spring for the price. Please let me know if ksh is NOT
- >going to be part of the GNO future so I can start beating my head
- >against the wall now.
-
- Heh :) It depends on what you mean by 'ksh like things'. gsh
- is a very extended csh (i.e., tcsh) but currently does not have
- a script language. I've finished the next GNO version's gsh parsing
- subsystem and implemented 'foreach', and if y'all can convince me
- that csh is brain damaged in some way, I'm all ears.
- BTW, Albert Chin is working on a graphical ksh shell that mimics
- the NeXT environment. What I've seen so far is very encouraging.
-
- >Don't know if it applies, however, it really galls me under ORCA
- >to not be able to type: emacs fi f2 f3, ... and not be able to
- >type ^XN to access the next file f2, etc.
-
- I suspect that's a problem with the IIgs port of emacs.
- It could also be that the functionality is there but has a different
- key mapping. Morgan Davis (IIgs uEmacs guru) can assuredly answer
- this better than I can.
-
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