From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20766 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [OT: Re: tcsh] Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <166ABAD4-3849-42E4-81B7-BEB2C454EFB5@gmail.com> <72812EAC-F3D4-431F-8589-877614A7BFE0@uni-bonn.de> <20050609144506.17734@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <20050609185448.GB29755@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118346970 22750 80.91.229.2 (9 Jun 2005 19:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 09 21:56:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgT7L-0000Td-Nx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:55:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5496912806; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:59:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02511-02-8; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:59:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF04127F1; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:59:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265F6127F1 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:59:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02511-02-7 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:59:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56942127ED for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:59:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd21.aul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1DgTBK-0001rg-01; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:59:14 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (SsYRakZbZeo7LyvnBHbzDky0j3MM3M90E26iQMFZNc-XbNIbUroar4@[84.177.81.197]) by fwd21.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1DgTBB-0yiVXc0; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:59:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050609185448.GB29755@localhost.localdomain> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) X-ID: SsYRakZbZeo7LyvnBHbzDky0j3MM3M90E26iQMFZNc-XbNIbUroar4@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 26f7e154-260f-4cb3-8ddf-5a73ccaa24c5 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20766 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20766 > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:45:06PM +0100, Adam Lindsay wrote: > > > There may be other reasons for using bash, but I wouldn't say that it > being the current default is one. Apple doesn't rely on your choice of > shell for anything. > Of course you're right Adam. Nevertheless, inexperienced users will run into trouble because recipes for doing things will usually involve bashish commands. For somebody who is not at home on the command-line, it's non-trivial to translate "export foo=bar" into something that tcsh will understand. So I would still recommend switching to bash (or zsh, my favorite shell). Best Thomas