From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:14:53 -0400 From: rapogue@catt.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <2047553083.376861238516093038.JavaMail.root@joey.catt.com> In-Reply-To: <607fb38c-9095-4045-abbb-28fa454184aa@l38g2000vba.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell? Topicbox-Message-UUID: ce68b054-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'd love to see tab completion at the command line. If there is a way to do it in Plan 9, then I haven't figured it out yet. But then I'm a newby to the OS. ----- Original Message ----- From: noagbodjivictor To: 9fans@9fans.net Sent: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:29:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell? hello, I'm a undergrade CS student doing a project for my introductory operating systems class. my team wants to write a simple shell from scratch. one idea we have found so far is the following. the shell will record all the programs it has run. whenever a program goes awry and is killed by the kernel. the shell will reload it. what do you think of it? also, we know there are many many shells out there. and our professor would not like us to write from scratch. we wanted because it provides much exercise. but we certainly don't know about all the shells out there. so I'm writing to get your opinions. maybe there are thing that people implement themselves but want included in the shell itself? or just something they want implemented? thanks a lot in advance for your help.