mental note: pencil Volker in for a rant^h^h^h^h talk on shells.

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:15:05 +1300
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

> > Besides, nearly everybody using Linux is using bash. And if they know 
> > enough to choose a different shell, then they know enough to help 
> > themselves.
> 
> I still think a good habit to get into is to specify basic assumptions
> and limitations. Though it's a readline thing, it might only work in
> bash because bash has substantial configuration features for this. Would
> these configurations also apply to other apps linked with libreadline?
> 
> And I still wish the bash defaulters got their bums up for a basic
> history search with the pgup/pgdown keys. One for which one doesn't have
> to RTFM to be able to make use of any of it it, like ctrl-R.
> 
> Volker
> 
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