On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:30:42AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> >
> > So, instead, we have 'set -o checkhash' to ask it to please work like sane
> > people expect.
>
> D'oh! That explains why I never see this stupidity.
>
> 1.1 (fanf 01-Sep-99): shopt -s cdspell checkhash checkwinsize extglob
> histappend
>
> > Which, of course, accompanies the other half dozen "Don't Be Stupid" options
> > I have configured in my shell setup to ensure it doesn't suck quite as much.
>
> My favourite shell hate is POSIX's "logical" cd behaviour. And I see that
> POSIX does not have the "don't be stupid" option `set -o physical`. Augh.
I've not thought that much about this misfeature, mostly accepting that it's
convenient sometimes, and annoying sometimes, just like not providing it would
be.
So I'm curious, does
alias cd="cd -P'
work, or is it broken in some additional way?
-josh
PS, curious about the list of unbreakmes mentioned previously.
