Re: free carets

["Roger Peppe" <rog@ohm.york.ac.uk>]

> Perhaps we might be able to set es up so that it goes through free-careting
> if it's interactive, but not in scripts.... this is again coming back to 

> the question of ``what do we want in an interactive shell'' vs ``what do
> we want in a command langauge''...

no no no!

i really don't think it would be a good idea to have different
_syntax_ depending on whether the shell's interactive or not
(cut and paste from the command line into shell scripts even
in trivial cases would stop working).

  i just think that the semantics of certain commands should
(or could) change depending on the context of their use (cd, for example) -
the syntax is a more fundamental thing.

  anyway, wasn't the discussion about cutting down the size of es
(logically and physically) ? a change like this would increase
both logical complexity (the manual page would grow) and physical
size (the code would grow). given this, would such a change
help at all ?

  rog.