From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Environment Variables Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:44:16 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85fxyutxj3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <7e3068b0-defa-4b37-9092-182b521f5f50@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <3568102A-B060-4D1F-B7B5-7944386B07A9@Web.DE> <20071124124821.GA5409@ono.com> <87ir3qzw3m.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195990854 32682 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2007 11:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 12:41:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwFqw-0004sK-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:40:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwFqh-0003td-Qb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng1.kpn.DE!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YYjzgva5l2Ow7YWrNBVtenGRx8s= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Nov 2007 11:44:02 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 06ea6363.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=R]jVBbaCdU\aAeROF2PWMQic==]BZ:af^4Fo<]lROoRQFl8W>\BH3YR3R=UUH`QAjUCV`H8_`hhQT^9QSCVg3dOVOIC5DBZVJ9[fjLH<2jF_kZG`?B1]MLDoY Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154066 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49499 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 25.11.2007 um 07:18 schrieb Tim X: > >>> IMO bash is a bit too complicated to be used as a user's default >>> shell. >> >> Really? What would you recommend as a default user shell (and please >> don't >> say csh!)? > > > For interactive use I recommend tcsh to begin with. Tcsh makes no > complicated difference between interactive and login shells, it > confuses an user only when preferring an existing ~/.cshrc before > ~/.tcshrc. > > Do you know why you are so prejudiced against csh? Because it sucks for scripting and does not offer any advantage for interactive work when compared to modern Bourne shells? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum