On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote:

> It *is* more usable. Usable software should be intuitive. There is nothing
> intuitive about 2>. It's not about saving the characters, it's about
> re-thinking *why* things are the way they are. Fish changes lots of
> "standard" things, that's what makes it useful IMO. They've made a design
> decision to implement things based on their value, not on the fact that it
> is standard. It's part of the design philosophy for fish
>

It's not entirely arbitrary using 2> to redirect standard error:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor

That's not to say that it's the only way to do it...

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