From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ns.ca.certicom.com ([209.121.99.5]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <45380>; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:16:11 -0500 Received: from smtpmail.certicom.com (domino2.certicom.com [10.0.1.25]) by ns.ca.certicom.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 86E8217BE for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:51:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sroberts.(none) ([10.0.2.195]) by smtpmail.certicom.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.4 (830.2 3-23-1999)) with SMTP id 85256AEE.0051C983; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:53:20 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 29463 invoked by uid 1425); Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:55:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:55:02 -0500 From: Sam Roberts To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: Beta release rc-1.6b3 available Message-ID: <20011023105502.A28670@certicom.com> References: <20011015125606.2248.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk> <20011023085557.A16410@texne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011023085557.A16410@texne.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i I'd like to second this. It's the only reason I don't use rc as my shell, other than that I really like it. Does anybody have a patch? Sam Quoting Carlo Strozzi , who wrote: > Mine is not really a bug report, buth rather a request for a new > feature. I dunno whether it has been asked before on this list, but > are there any chances that rc will ever handle a path specification > in the form of: > > ; command ~/path/to/file > > where ``~'' gets substituted internally with the value of $home ? > Likewise, ~user should be replaced by $home/user/. Of course this > is a-la-bash, but it would make rc much more handy to use as > a login shell. The executable that I use has been linked with the > GNU readline library, which handles the above cases correctly, but > when it passes the path to rc the latter complains, of course. -- Sam Roberts