On Jul 22, 2012 5:42 PM, "Pierre Abbat" <p...@phma.optus.nu> wrote: > > 1. When I run bc, I frequently edit the previous line and make a change: > 15/56 > .26785714285714285714 > a(15/56) > .26171350240120506395 > a(15/56)*45/a(1) > 14.99507912917598589467 > In Linux, I hit uparrow and edit the line. In DFBSD, I have to type the whole > line again. This is, I'm sure, a license issue; the readline library in DFly > is GNU readline. The bugs section says "It’s too big and too slow," so why > not write a BSD version that's smaller and faster? > (The calculation relates to the upper slope of my future house's roof.)
There is one already. It's called libedit. Don't know what the status is in DFlyBSD, but it's basically replaced readline in FreeBSD. > 2. less in Linux saves the screen when it starts and restores it when it ends. > In DFly it doesn't; it leaves a screenful of the file visible when it exits. > This isn't that big a deal, except when I'm looking at my PIN or password > file, which I do with less, not cat, so that it won't be left on my screen. > Not that it really matters, since I'm alone, but to some people it may. This is something I absolutely hate about Linux distros. Makes reading man pages a royal pain, as the page disappears instead of remaining onscreen where you can read it while running commands. As such, I add PAGER='less -X' to all my Linux boxes to get the BSD behaviour. Read the man page for less to see which flag to set in which env variable to make less work the way you want.
