> OpenBSD's ksh is excellent, but not sure if it was ever ported anywhere It was, and it's called loksh. stali recommends it. https://github.com/dimkr/loksh Maybe there could be a flag option to disable horizontal scrolling?
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Kamil Cholewiński <harry6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Marc Collin <marc.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi. >> Recently a user from suckless told me that bash sucks, but before I >> could ask why he went offline. >> I tried looking at suckless.org page about software that sucks, but >> couldn't find anything about bash. >> I can imagine why it sucks - no portability! #/bin/sh should be >> enough for everyone. Is that it or is something else to the matter? >> Maybe an entry to suckless.org suck page could be good to clarify >> things and also warn new users. >> Best wishes. > > TL;DR all shells suck horribly. > > Bash is slow, buggy, incompatible, security disaster, bloated, quirky. > > If you'd like a slow, buggy, bloated and quirky shell that sucks just > slightly less than bash and has more features, try zsh. > > mksh is very nice for interactive use, but lacks edit undo (C-_), which > drives me mad. Also it's always trying to fit a long command on a single > line by scrolling it horizontally, which makes mouse copy-pasting a > total pain. > > OpenBSD's ksh is excellent, but not sure if it was ever ported anywhere > else. Also it shares mksh's insane input line scrolling thing. > > csh is insane for scripting. Also I don't want to bother using an > interactive shell if it's not (more or less) the same language I could > use for scripts. > > I don't like rc since there are two incompatible implementations, one is > the real thing and the other is actually usable for interactive use. > > For scripting, use #!/bin/sh, but do yourself a favor and if you're > bound to go over the 1000 LOC mark, use Lua, Python, Perl, etc instead. > > K.
