On 05/22/2018 03:06 PM, David M. Fellows wrote:
As a terminal emulator that has a lot of configurabilty.
I'm quite curious what sort of configuration you use in (what I
understand to be) a text based communications package in your day to day
activities.
I do so much via SSH that I don't even think of anything other than
XTerm and SSH.
Please enlighten me to what I might be missing.
Yes, but.. you can do some neat things with it.
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I know.
I'm thinking about something that is very much so expect adjacent.
I agree that expect does have it's use cases, and that very little else
will do when you truly need it.
I ran in to too many people that would try to do things like use expect
to call commands to create users and deal with the failure cases instead
of actually looking to see if the user existed first. Read: expect was
the wrong tool for that job.
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Grant. . . .
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