From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA11946 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 05:31:14 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA01980; Thu, 23 May 1996 15:11:24 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:11:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199605231911.VAA04322@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: HISTCHARS To: coleman@math.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:11:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199605231848.OAA19889@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> from Richard Coleman at "May 23, 96 02:48:33 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"rn1HN2.0.sU.SXBfn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1153 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > > HISTCHARS was changed to histchars quite long ago because both bash and csh > > use the lower-case version. > > Yes, I made that change. And I've since come to regret it. I had planned > on changing it back, but was procrastinating since I'm sure lots of people > would raise hell. > > I think it makes more sense for it to be HISTCHARS, since this is consistent > with the case of HISTFILE and HISTSIZE. I now believe this to be more > important than compatibility with bash or csh. I think that presently much more people use bash than zsh, especially because all Linux distributions come with bash as the default login shell. It is easier to convince these people about the superiority of zsh if we provide better compatibility. And probably even more people use csh or tcsh out there. Zoltan