On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 05:41:56PM -0700, Noah Friedman wrote: > > No filename completion, (this is a very nice feature of bash) > > You can get this from readline or other command-line editing libraries that > link with es. Okay, it works with filenames in the directory, when using readline. But i want filename completion even with programs in the path or aliases. Thus commands that i can give, when i am in the first position after an es prompt. And the bash also qoutes apropriate filenames like "q ?". es with readline does not. > >Job control might be an issue for some people, too. > > Yes, I agree. Purists say job control is a bad idea, and I have no comment > on the purity of the concept. But as a practical matter, they are just > wrong. Ideal or not in principle, clean to implement or not, availability > of window system or not (!), job control is still an absolute requirement. > The lack of job control is the main thing which has kept me from converting > away from bash for normal shell use, and I've been too lame to sit down and > implement it. I'm so lame I haven't even upgraded from es 0.84. Is it hard to implement. > > What are common hacks to get "es" closer to my favorite shell [tm]? > > (Maybe to get a nice prompt?) > > I've got a couple of hacks, including a replacement repl. > See the file es/lib/repl.es (and many accompanying library files) in > ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/friedman/inits/es-init-4.104.tar.gz I will have a look into that. Isn`t that a nice link for the es Webpages? Bernhard
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