On Friday 19 October 2007, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > On 10/6/07, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We discussed the C-shell in these mailing lists before. A few days ago I > > decided to set up the definitive anti-C-shell page, based on an email I > > wrote, so I did: > > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/csh/ > > Good page. Definitely s/tcsh/bash/g is even more obvious than s/cvs/svn/g > ;-) > > But for those of us that find even {ba,z,k}sh unsatisfactory, I highly > recommend trying the Friendly Interactive SHell > <http://fishshell.org/>. It fixes many things like quoting, innovates > in configuration and has interactive syntax-higlighted > multiline-editing completing-on-steroids prompt.
My problem with FISH is that its syntax is incompatible with that of the Bourne Shell, much less with bash. As such, I recommend people not to get use it, for fear it will become the next csh/tcsh. I'd rather improve bash or zsh in areas that one feels they need improvement, than create something incompatible. So stay away. And I daresay I don't find bash unsatisfactory. I'm probably still using a very small of its functionality, and it has many dark corners that I haven't investigated yet. I still haven't even found enough motivation to use zsh instead of bash. And I'm still finding myself using Perl for many non-trivial scripting problems. > > I do have to warn that it is still evolving, not perfectly stable, and > has performance problems. So you might not want it as your login > shell yet, but it's definitely worth checking out. > I'd rather see the good FISH ideas integrated into bash. > See http://fishshell.org/wiki/moin.cgi/BashToFish for some highlights > and a quick start. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux