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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Why does shell write to stderr?
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:05:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220409180505.bKC2a%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_RsFWGUtj-9QDKSG3h8Otxb0ZY5M7G00ZAjV=dKEg+Rsw@mail.gmail.com>

John Cowan wrote in
 <CAD2gp_RsFWGUtj-9QDKSG3h8Otxb0ZY5M7G00ZAjV=dKEg+Rsw@mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:53 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
 |If you never ring the bell in the editor, the issue never comes up, the
 |> code is simpler, and there's less to understand.
 |
 |Well, yes.  And by the same token, you can eliminate the complexities of
 |i18n by having only one diagnostic, namely "?" (or by pretending all the
 |world is anglophone).
 |
 |But setting aside for the moment this style of argumentation, let's
 |consider directory colorization.  I have no dog in this fight, as I set all
 |my terminals to black-on-white as God and Gutenberg intended, and set TERM

Johannes Gutenberg?  The bible was in parts red-on-white at least,
and had beautiful coloured paintings, too.  (They did not know
about the communist Charlie Chaplin and his Modern Times by then.)

  ...

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-09 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-07 21:11 Douglas McIlroy
2022-04-07 21:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-04-07 21:36 ` Richard Salz
2022-04-07 22:15   ` Rob Pike
2022-04-07 22:30     ` George Michaelson
2022-04-07 23:51       ` Rob Pike
2022-04-09  1:46         ` John Cowan
2022-04-09  1:53           ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 18:05           ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-04-08  9:34 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-04-07 17:45 Richard Salz

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