Re: A Different Shell Philosophy

gazelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenny McCormack) writes:

> No, exactly the opposite. The problem is that the regulars in this group
> can't evaluate the two parts separately, because they are so bound up in
> the "beauty" of thinking of them together.

Well, perhaps some can, but it's a religious issue - like emacs
vs. vi. Decades ago some people felt the user interface should be
isolated from the shell. I can't remember the name of the AT&T
windowing program that ran on top of the shell, but some people loved
it. I think it came from the plan 9 group.

Then consider Sun's cmdtool interface. Sun tried to address the UI
issue by providing a consistent mouse-based editing system on every
tool in the toolbox, including the shell. But many people hated
cmdtool because it interfered with key-board based editing.

I personally liked using the mouse on the command line.

Here's an interesting discussion on cursor keys by Tog, BTW:

http://www.asktog.com/readerMail/1999-12ReaderMail.html



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