From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Environment Variables
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:02:07 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7ciyc8g.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ejebu014.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu
jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>>
>>> Am 27.11.2007 um 09:03 schrieb Tim X:
>>>
>>>> I don't want to have to know two shells, one for interactive work and
>>>> one for scripting.
>>>
>>> So you're boiling your eggs with a hammer?
>>>
>>> For me it's not that complicated to write in German, English,
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Your English writing could make do with fewer non-sequiturs.
>
> One shell might be better for scripting and one for interactive use.
>
> I switched to Z Shell because of its interactive features (it's "more
> pretty"), and started scripting at the same time; now that I use Dired,
> I have very limited interactive shell usage, but I still use zsh for
> scripting. Of course I use bash for any system-wide scripts or things
> meant to run as root.
I used zsh some years back, mainly because at the time, it was thought it
would be the best shell for parallel processing environments and because
the researcher I was working with in parallel processing was also actively
contributing to its development. Its been a long time since I used it, but
back then, it was definitely one of the nicest interactive shell
environments and it had good consistency between interactive and
non-interactive (scripting) use (unlike csh).
I've thought about going back to it, but I just don't use interactive
shells that much (dired and eshell more often than not) and I've been
enjoying moving my environment to a more lisp like one, using rep, guile,
scsh and lush instead.
Still, zsh is a shell I remember as being pleasant to use and unless the
project has gone in some weird new direction, its probably still a good
shell. Of course, I still use (ba)sh for my system scripts as I know it
will exist.
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-23 13:43 Emacs Environment Variables Phi
2007-11-23 21:09 ` Barry Margolin
2007-11-24 9:34 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-24 12:48 ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
2007-11-24 13:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-24 14:02 ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
[not found] ` <mailman.4026.1195912966.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-24 16:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-25 6:25 ` Tim X
2007-11-25 9:06 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.4025.1195911521.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-24 13:45 ` Phi
2007-11-25 6:18 ` Tim X
2007-11-25 10:18 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4054.1195985894.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-25 10:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-25 11:36 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-11-25 13:25 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4059.1195997121.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-25 13:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-25 14:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-25 15:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-25 15:50 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4071.1196004563.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-28 16:51 ` Sven Utcke
2007-11-28 18:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-30 12:25 ` Sven Utcke
2007-11-30 11:46 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-30 12:28 ` Sven Utcke
2007-11-30 13:32 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-30 15:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-03 10:17 ` Sven Utcke
[not found] ` <mailman.4354.1196435852.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-03 10:20 ` Sven Utcke
2007-11-28 16:43 ` Sven Utcke
2007-12-01 10:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-25 13:25 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-27 8:03 ` Tim X
2007-11-27 10:00 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4168.1196157656.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-27 10:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-27 16:27 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-11-28 9:02 ` Tim X [this message]
2007-12-23 2:01 ` David Combs
2007-11-28 8:55 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.4022.1195908516.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-25 6:02 ` Tim X
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