On 8/8/07, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Marc Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Ian says it is my job to pick, at least for Solaris.
> > For OpenSolaris, it should be a community decision.
> > But if the community wants me to pick, I would probably go with ksh93.
>
> I'm a little out of touch with ksh, never used it much. But here are
> a list of things that a plurality if not a majority of developers
> coming over from Linux are going to expect to work, and regard it as
> a bug if they don't.
>
> 1. !!
> 2. bg/fg
Works in ksh93.
> 3. control-R to search through history
Works in ksh93.
> 4. up-arrow/down-arrow Just Work with history
Works in ksh93+Solaris.
> 5. pushd/popd
This is a bash feature. You could use (cd dir1;(cd dir2)) instead,
each '(' is like pushd and a ')' is like popd.
> 6. autocomplete on tab
Works in ksh93.
> 7. %1
Works in ksh93.
Josh
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