From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 19353 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2022 18:07:46 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 Apr 2022 18:07:46 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 709F293D3E; Sun, 10 Apr 2022 04:07:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D4593D2A; Sun, 10 Apr 2022 04:05:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9303593D2A; Sun, 10 Apr 2022 04:05:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F10893D1B for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2022 04:05:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from kent.sdaoden.eu (kent.sdaoden.eu [192.0.2.2]) by sdaoden.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B11216059; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 20:05:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by kent.sdaoden.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 319406FE28; Sat, 9 Apr 2022 20:05:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:05:05 +0200 Author: Steffen Nurpmeso From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: John Cowan Message-ID: <20220409180505.bKC2a%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: References: Mail-Followup-To: John Cowan , Rob Pike , TUHS main list User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.24-233-gcbe5418d3b OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. Subject: Re: [TUHS] Why does shell write to stderr? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" John Cowan wrote in : |On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:53 PM Rob Pike 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)