Try env | wc -l in bash. Now tell me why that value is so big.
[r...@host ~]# env | wc -l
37
[r...@host ~]#
Is that very high? I don't even know if it is or how it would mean anything
bad (or good for that matter) assuming it were high. Not to mention, it's a
very bad metric. Because:
[r...@host ~]# env | wc -c
1404
[r...@host ~]#
Most of it in the 19 lines for one TERMCAP variable. Strictly a relic of
the past kept with all good intentions: backward compatibility, and heeding
the diversity of hardware and configuration that still exists out there. 5
of the other 18 lines are completely specific to my installation. That
leaves us with 13 short lines.
Quite a considerable portion of UNIX-like systems, FreeBSD in this case, is
the way it is not because the developers are stupid, rather because they
have a "constituency" to tend to. They aren't carefree researchers with
high ambitions.
--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:04 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro"
<jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Eris Discordia <eris.discor...@gmail.com>
wrote:
The man page *does* say it's too big and slow. So does the bash
manpage. And getting readline to do anything sane is about as fun as
screwing around with a terminfo file.
A bad implementation is not a bad design. And, in fact, the badness of
the implementation is even questionable in the light of bash's normal
behavior or the working .inputrc files I've been using for some time.
Behavior is not indicative of good design. It just means that the
bandaids heaped upon bash (and X11, and...) make it work acceptably.
Try env | wc -l in bash. Now tell me why that value is so big.
Anyway, thanks for the info.
--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:57 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro"
<jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Eris Discordia
<eris.discor...@gmail.com> wrote:
I see. But seriously, readline does handle bindings and line editing
for bash. Except it's a function instead of a program and you think
it's a bad idea.
The man page *does* say it's too big and slow. So does the bash
manpage. And getting readline to do anything sane is about as fun as
screwing around with a terminfo file.
--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:31 PM +0800 sqweek <sqw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
2009/4/7 Eris Discordia <eris.discor...@gmail.com>:
Keyboard
bindings for example; why couldn't they be handled by a program
that just does keyboard bindings + line editing, and writes
finalized lines to the shell.
Like... readline(3)?
No.
-sqweek
--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:09 AM -0700 ron minnich
<rminn...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Eris Discordia
<eris.discor...@gmail.com> wrote:
Like... readline(3)?
one hopes not.
ron
