Udo Grabowski <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> wrote:
> On 29/08/2016 12:19, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >......
> > I would be interested to understand why people these days still use tcsh.
> > Could
> > you explain?
> > ......
>
> Mostly because the whole "infrastructure" (complete-definitions,
> aliases, etc.) for users is there and proven, and users are adapted
> to its behaviour for more than a decade now. And the history
> and completion options and the behaviours of these are slightly
> different between different shells, and from our view, tcsh does
> it "more natural" than other shells.
Did you have a look at recent bosh versions?
Bosh implements a more powerful alias mechanism and added all the features I
did take from csh while implementing "bsh" 32 years ago.
Jörg
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