On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:12:19PM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >Could you clarify something?  Just what exactly is a non-starter?
> >
> >Mucking with the user's PATH without asking them?  (I hope so!)
> 
> Yes.

> >Or is any PATH management tool out of the question as well?

> I've never seen this proposed or discussed, so I can only give a 
> personal opinion.
> I see no reason this couldn't be implemented.  After all, vi is such a 
> tool, just not
> a very friendly one.

OK.  I ask because a GUI tool that let's you pick the environment you
prefer (GNU, XPG6, XPG4, SunOS 4.x, Solaris, CSW, Schilly, ... :) is, at
the very least, a way to visualize what this and related cases are all
about.

Thanks for the clarification.

Nico
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