Re: [9fans] Rc Recursion

2019-01-25 Thread Parker Ellertson
sweet! thanks On 1/25/19 8:03 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > recursion works fine. here's an example: > > https://gist.github.com/9nut/476be37e25e9561f525036bcf60a2014 > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:37 PM Parker Ellertson > wrote: > > This might be a stupid question to ask, but how well

Re: [9fans] Rc Recursion

2019-01-25 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
recursion works fine. here's an example: https://gist.github.com/9nut/476be37e25e9561f525036bcf60a2014 On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:37 PM Parker Ellertson wrote: > This might be a stupid question to ask, but how well does the rc shell > support recursion in its scripts? I ask because I'm

[9fans] Rc Recursion

2019-01-25 Thread Parker Ellertson
This might be a stupid question to ask, but how well does the rc shell support recursion in its scripts? I ask because I'm writing a script which will rely on calling itself a whole bunch. I could write it in python or go or some other language, but I've been wanting to give rc a try for a

Re: [9fans] Rc port.

2019-01-25 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, at 9:59 PM, Federico Benavento wrote: > I’ve been able to survive quite well on a regular Mac terminal with it. I remember thinking regular rc was tolerable on a Mac terminal thanks to the terminal copy/pasting with normal keybindings, but this would be better. I've been

Re: [9fans] Rc port.

2019-01-25 Thread erik quanstrom
correct.  Doug's original proposal was very nonlinear.  Ken's genius was finding an implementable and useful subset.- erikOn Jan 25, 2019 07:13, Stuart Morrow wrote:I take back the stuff where a directory can be a command  - it interacts weird with $path:you’d do `..’ thinking it’s the same as

Re: [9fans] Rc port.

2019-01-25 Thread Stuart Morrow
I take back the stuff where a directory can be a command - it interacts weird with $path: you’d do `..’ thinking it’s the same as `cd ..’, except it’s actually `cd /bin/..’. > is there a buildable version of es any longer? I just found http://wryun.github.io/es-shell/ I’ve never

Re: [9fans] Rc port.

2019-01-25 Thread Stuart Morrow
> I just wanted the shell, not the whole thing You should post it to suckless. I recall a thread years ago discussing what the ‘official’ shell of the suckless project ought to be. Rc went completely unmentioned for at least about half of the thread, although they can’t possibly have been