> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Hallo John, > > Am Sonntag, 28. Juli 2002 um 13:18 schriebst du: > > > After (much ;) discussion with Rob here's the first 'release' of the > > profile package. > > > If anyone want's to suggest modifications for these files, for example > > DIR_COLOR, key binding..., please send a message (and patch ;) to the > > list. > > Ohoh, user environment stuff, that will cause much more discussion;) > I have attatched a patch against your version and my complete > /etc/profile(.default).
It looks strangely similar to my work one. I thing we must have found the same source! I've uploaded the next generation (is different from setups version which I'm proposing to be the first one) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/profile/profile-1.1- 1.tar.bz2 This version _isn't_ yet for use. I also don't know how to indicate to the user that this package has changed. Should it copy the current profile to, for example, profile-old-`date`? Should it do anything at all? > Also the DIR_COLOR stuff should be global in /etc/profile (IMO), I'd rather it be a seperate file, but that's easy to alter either way :) > plus a global inputrc. The creation of /etc/inputrc is in > /etc/profile now, but may also be just an > export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc I'd rather /etc/inputrc *not* be exported as its presence overrides a user one not the other way round: "If you create /etc/inputrc, note that Bash will ignore ~/.inputrc" (taken from your link below). My preference is for the bash package to add it to /etc/skel (see my posting on the delete key :) > in there and include the complete file in the package. > > Also I would be interested to know who is 'mwe' who did this > profile stuff which I copied. Me too. > # example /etc/inputrc > # see: http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html#Bash <snip/> again, this should be part of the bash package. J.
