From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5c4b21f3.1c69fb81.91bec.078e@mx.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> From: Stuart Morrow Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:49:26 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <84052108-743E-449F-914B-9BF20E3DD4A1@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_B63C577E-9224-4AD6-AC1E-D33F7D43355A_" Subject: Re: [9fans] Rc port. Topicbox-Message-UUID: f40635f2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --_B63C577E-9224-4AD6-AC1E-D33F7D43355A_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > I just wanted the shell, not the whole thing You should post it to suckless. I recall a thread years ago discussing wha= t the =E2=80=98official=E2=80=99 shell of the suckless project ought to be. = Rc went completely unmentioned for at least about half of the thread, although they can=E2=80= =99t possibly have been unaware of it... They either want to avoid p9p as a dependency, or else can=E2=80=99t live without the usual interactive featur= es of Linux shells. Now they have no excuse. As long as we=E2=80=99re discussing Linux stuff in shells, I think the new = shell mpsh[1] has a neat way to set prompt, neat because the mechanism can also be used to do those variables like OLDPWD that /bin/bash has built-in knowledge of. (I wonder what the security implications might be.) [1] https://www.cca.org/mpsh/docs-05.html -Morrow --_B63C577E-9224-4AD6-AC1E-D33F7D43355A_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"

> I just wanted the shell, not the wh= ole thing

&n= bsp;

You sh= ould post it to suckless.=C2=A0 I recall a thread years ago discussing what=

the =E2=80=98off= icial=E2=80=99 shell of the suckless project ought to be.=C2=A0 Rc went com= pletely

unmention= ed for at least about half of the thread, although they can=E2=80=99t

possibly have been una= ware of it... They either want to avoid p9p as a

dependency, or else can=E2=80=99t live with= out the usual interactive features

of Linux shells.

 

Now they have no excuse.

 

As long as we=E2=80=99re discussing Linux stu= ff in shells, I think the new shell

mpsh[1] has a neat way to set prompt, neat because the m= echanism

can also= be used to do those variables like OLDPWD that /bin/bash has

built-in knowledge of.

(I wonder what the sec= urity implications might be.)

 

[1] https://www.cca.org/mpsh/docs-05.html

 

-Morrow

 

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