From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Utcke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Environment Variables Date: 30 Nov 2007 13:25:02 +0100 Organization: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Message-ID: 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> <85fxyutxj3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85k5o6sa3i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85mysy8cto.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196426547 25135 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2007 12:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:42:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 13:42:36 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 1Iy5CU-0007P1-1z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:42:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy5CE-0006c5-91 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:42:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!claire.desy.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hasgksssven.desy.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154294 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:49722 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > > Maybe our usage-patterns are different? > > More likely our understanding of the context. I tell people that csh > sucks for scripting, and they tell me that I am wrong since they don't > care about scripting. Strange. Viewed from this side it looked as if people told you that, yes, tcsh sucks for scripting (and never, ever, even think about using csh), but is lovely for interactive use. To which you seemed to answer "But what about scripting?"... So maybe we could agree on a) [t]csh sucks for any serious scripting (anything containing more than maybe a foreach loop, some if's, and some simple variable substitutions), in which case bash would be a much better choice. b) tcsh is just fine (and, depending on taste, maybe even superior to bash) for light interactive use... Which, incidentally, would be how I use the two :-) Sven -- ___ _ _____ ___ Dr.-Ing. Sven Utcke ___ ___ _____ __ / __| |/ / __| __| phone: +49 40 8998-5317 | \| __/ __\ \ / / | (_ | ' <\__ \__ \ fax : +49 40 8994-5317 (NEW) | |) | _|\__ \\ V / \___|_|\_\___|___/ http://www.desy.de/~utcke (to come)|___/|___|___/ |_|