From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS - why?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:00:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <110824080039.ZM25273@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty97eyny.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org>
On Aug 24, 3:17pm, Frank Terbeck wrote:
}
} Fair enough. But then again, who wouldn't set `extended_glob'? ;)
I don't. I have a little "eglob" function that I use as a prefix to
the command line when I want extended globbing. (Obviously I spend
too much of my time cleaning out backup files that have "#" and "~"
in their names.)
} Still: The choice of having it unset by default might still be for
} emulating csh behaviour. Or maybe not. If someone can remember why
} it's off by default, I'd be glad to hear about it.
It's almost certainly related to csh. Zsh was first invented as a
shell to bring Bourne shell parsing regularity and scripting features
to users (university students in a BSD Unix environment) who had been
introduced to Unix via csh. Anything that would overtly confuse a
csh-er who was typing a simple one-liner at the prompt was avoided.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 12:02 Frank Terbeck
2011-08-24 12:44 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-08-24 13:17 ` Frank Terbeck
2011-08-24 15:00 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2011-08-24 17:05 ` Frank Terbeck
2011-08-29 15:17 ` Bart Schaefer
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