From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4093 invoked from network); 16 Jan 1998 17:36:40 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Jan 1998 17:36:40 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26081; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:24:39 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:24:39 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199801161726.RAA09166@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.2-zefram3: history completion To: B.Stephens@isode.com (Bruce Stephens) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:26:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199801161656.LAA24885@math.gatech.edu> from "Bruce Stephens" at Jan 16, 98 04:57:49 pm X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Headers: in preparation X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"WjTEs2.0.SN6.MVvlq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3726 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Bruce Stephens wrote: >Indeed. There's a (minimal) danger that things split (like emacs/xemacs), >with some people feeling that the base installation ought to be relatively >small but very configurable, and others feeling that the default installation >ought to present users with a more functionally rich product. There's nothing stopping us doing both -- have a small(ish), highly configurable base, and have it OOTB be configured to be functionally rich. We already do this to some extent, for example having several useful options enabled by default. > Maybe a graphical/menu driven configuration tool for >newish users which helps to set up template .zsh* files. Putting more useful configuration into the startup files in the distribution might help too. -zefram