[openbeos] Re: . or no .

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:40:50 +0200 (MEST)

I know, but TCSH SUXOR :P
(I have tcsh by default under Solaris :-( need to launch bash whenever I want 
to do something with more than one line :^))

François.

En réponse à "Balint, Jess" <JBalint@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> the TCSH default prompt is '>' for a user.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: François Revol [mailto:revol@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:51 AM
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: . or no .
> 
> 
> I agree here...
> And btw '>' is a DOS style prompt :p For *nix stuff it should be $, 
> or # for root. Mine is:
> \033[0;1m[$USER@$HOSTNAME $PWD]$\033[0m
>  :-)
> For default .profile... well just make a /etc/profile that is the
> default 
> one.
> Btw if newbies want to look at shell, lets just make them do it, the
> right 
> way, hands on, not with yet another GUI wrapper.
> 
> En réponse à Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > >In the spirt of Be, I'd suggest having a GUI system for this, with
> a
> > >selection of "common" shell prefs, easly editable and simple,
> > complete
> > >"joe-I-feed-my-mouse-bloggs" friendly.
> > 
> > Hang on a second...
> > I agree that the shell is ... somewhat challenging for newbies. 
> > The whole point of having a GUI is so that newbies don't have to use
> the
> > shell.
> > Let's not over-engineer this too much. Will having easier shell
> > preferences make a newbies life easier? I don't think so. I think
> that
> > it is something else to look at, understand and deal with. Newbies
> > shouldn't see the shell at all. Only we, hardened, Unix veterans
> should.
> > ;-)
> > 
> > >I might have a go.
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