From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16951 invoked from network); 17 Feb 1997 20:33:39 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Feb 1997 20:33:39 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA23014; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:45:40 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:45:40 -0500 (EST) Sender: hniksic@public.srce.hr To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: zsh-3.1.1 on NetBSD patch & problems References: <199702171937.OAA07203@spacely.icd.teradyne.com> X-URL: ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/ X-Attribution: Hrv X-Face: &}4JQk=L;e.~x+|eo]#DGk@x3~ed!.~lZ}YQcYb7f[WL9L'Z*+OyA\nAEL1M(".[qvI#a2E 6WYI5>>e7'@_)3Ol9p|Nn2wNa/;~06jL*B%tTcn/XvhAu7qeES0\|MF%$;sI#yn1+y" From: Hrvoje Niksic Date: 17 Feb 1997 20:47:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: Vinnie Shelton's message of Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:37:18 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.13/XEmacs 19.14 Resent-Message-ID: <"WVTHQ2.0.Ud5.aLB2p"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2904 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Vinnie Shelton writes: > zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk said: > > gwing@primenet.com.au wrote: > >1) What's happened to default compctls? > > Who cares? They were a bad idea anyway. > ^^^^^^^^^^ > Is that some kind of joke? Does the phrase "backward compatibility" mean > anything to you? Can we all agree a permanent moratorium on breaking > old code/scripts/login environments? Well, this change certainly breaks code and scripts, but I do agree that the old defaults were very convenient, and *not* a bad idea. When we are at work, why don't we kick out `bye' (we have exit, after all), history (use `fc -l'), `r' (use `fc -r'), etc. Bah! -- Hrvoje Niksic | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- The IDIOT. Usually a cretin, morphodite, or old COBOL programmer selected to be the system administrator by a committee of cretins, morphodites, and old COBOL programmers.