Re: setopt interactivecomments

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 04/17/2014 03:41 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> In fact more often than not for me backspace works just fine in zsh but
> is messed up in other programs like vim.  That's not a shell problem,
> it's a tty-driver problem.
All I can say is that the first time I got Linux working, it didn't work 
(mind,g that would have been bash) and I'm almost positive that the 
first time I tried zsh it didn't work either.  I could be wrong about 
the latter of course, and it's just a for-instance anyway. I do know 
that when I've been forced to run zsh without any .zshrc, it's pretty 
raw.  I don't stand on details, just the principle of the thing.  
Anyway, since it seems there is some sort of config helper for newbies, 
that's good enough for me, I'm just sad I missed it. Dunno, maybe it 
could be more visible.  I found the nucleus of my current .zshrc on the 
web somewhere.
> Not sure where that's coming from either, because basic history motions
> are on by default as well.  If you're going to make straw men, at least
> make them vaguely humanoid ...
I still have nightmares about that first experience with the shell, and 
what I've said was certainly true back then. Maybe I'm just having 
flashbacks.  If we're more user friendly out of the box than I'm 
remembering, then I withdraw all my comments.  All I can say is that, on 
principle, good stuff should be 'on' by default, and if tcsh didn't have 
it 20 years ago that shouldn't be a big concern IMHO.  I certainly don't 
mean to be contentious.  Perhaps, just to air the laundry, there could 
be some sort of poll of the list as to who might like something or other 
made a default?