Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-26 Thread random832
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013, at 5:26, Martti Kühne wrote: Announcing a shell prompt and including git.h indeed makes no sense whatsoever. What part of git is useful when writing a shell interpreter? I'm sorry, I can't possibly imagine how this isn't apparent to you. Do you understand the difference

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-26 Thread Bryan Bennett
And sending that email calls into question your ability to either read a full thread or to recognize human names.

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-26 Thread sin
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:11:09PM +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:27:14PM -0500, Chris Down wrote: On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea! In my opinion others already got close enough for

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-26 Thread random832
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013, at 12:09, Bryan Bennett wrote: And sending that email calls into question your ability to either read a full thread or to recognize human names. In my defense, you'd already had it pointed out to you once and continued in your misconception without even understanding the

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-26 Thread Bryan Bennett
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM, random...@fastmail.us wrote: In my defense, you'd already had it pointed out to you once and continued in your misconception without even understanding the correction. Start paying attention to whom you're speaking and to whom you're referring. I was speaking

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Martti Kühne
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, random...@fastmail.us wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 13:44, Martti Kühne wrote: Staring at the code in horror. Something about git and nyancat. Without running the code - I have trust issues from similar occasions - you're kidding, right? The nyancat thing

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Martti Kühne
Oh, that's a *shell prompt* as in PROMPT_COMMAND you have there... my bad, I was busy focusing on our efforts to have our own *interpreter*. A shell prompt written in c. What an *utterly* educational idea! cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Dimitris Zervas
Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea!

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea! In my opinion others already got close enough for us not to worry (rc, mksh, undoubtedly others). We had some discussion about whether we would have a shell included with sbase, but I

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:27:14PM -0500, Chris Down wrote: On 2013-11-25 14:16:48 +0200, Dimitris Zervas wrote: Well, making our own shell, would be a really good idea! In my opinion others already got close enough for us not to worry (rc, mksh, undoubtedly others). We had some discussion

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
I know a few people who are happily using fish (which sucks), but at least it shows that people don't necessarily care about POSIX semantics in their shell. Do these people really use fish as /bin/sh or do they use it as their interactive shell? The former is _very_ scary, the latter is

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-11-25 21:11:09 +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: Although maybe we don't have to care about POSIX any more as long as we're not /bin/sh, who knows. I know a few people who are happily using fish (which sucks), but at least it shows that people don't necessarily care about POSIX

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-24 Thread Lee Fallat
Hello, rc from Plan 9 has been suckless for me. But suckless is an opinion, Lee

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-23 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:49:25PM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: My guess is the biggest objection (certainly mine) is that everything happens in `main` instead of breaking the work down into smaller functions that do one thing. Actually I started with that

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:44:01 +0100 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: Staring at the code in horror. Something about git and nyancat. Without running the code - I have trust issues from similar occasions - you're kidding, right? cheers! mar77i I honestly had to smile when I read

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:29 AM, FRIGN d...@frign.de wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:44:01 +0100 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: Staring at the code in horror. Something about git and nyancat. Without running the code - I have trust issues from similar occasions - you're kidding,

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread Markus Teich
Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:29 AM, FRIGN d...@frign.de wrote: I honestly had to smile when I read the code :). However, I don't consider this good coding-style and there are quite a few areas which could be improved. So Markus, if you want a serious response from us,

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Markus Teich markus.te...@stusta.mhn.de wrote: Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:29 AM, FRIGN d...@frign.de wrote: I honestly had to smile when I read the code :). However, I don't consider this good coding-style and there are quite a few

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread Noah Birnel
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:29:30AM +0100, FRIGN wrote: However, I don't consider this good coding-style and there are quite a few areas which could be improved. So Markus, if you want a serious response from us, you maybe should start writing more serious code ;). That's what he asked for

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread random832
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 13:44, Martti Kühne wrote: Staring at the code in horror. Something about git and nyancat. Without running the code - I have trust issues from similar occasions - you're kidding, right? The nyancat thing is clearly just a little joke. As for git... you can't

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread Markus Teich
Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: My guess is the biggest objection (certainly mine) is that everything happens in `main` instead of breaking the work down into smaller functions that do one thing. Actually I started with that approach[0], but I found it too confusing for such a small and linear

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
Thanks, I will read up on the links I don't know yet. And many thanks for a constructive post! ;) I'm just trying to do my best to make this mailing list suckless.

Re: [dev] suckless shell prompt?

2013-11-22 Thread hiro
just read some of these books http://books.cat-v.org/computer-science/