Re: whatis

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>]

| While I'm complaining:
| I miss the rc "whatis", that dumps out variables with needed quotes.

Whatis does too much work, since it also tells you about executables
found with path lookup.  If whatis makes it into es, it really needs to
have options to select what kind of thing to talk about!  In scheme,
"read" and "write" deal in standard external representations, while
"display" works like echo.