On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Joel Dahl <joel_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On 12-02-2012 4:05, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Joel Dahl <joel_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> > On 10-02-2012 9:03, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> Picking a random person to reply to. >> >> >> >> There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread, but can we please >> >> remember a few things: >> >> >> >> - Users can always add their own ~/.cshrc >> >> - Many users will get annoyed by what is someone else's amazing setup >> > >> > With the above in mind, I suggest we change as little as possible from what >> > we have today (for now) and that we do improvements in small steps. >> > >> > I believe 99.99% of all users would find the change below to be a definite >> > improvement over the current default values in .cshrc: >> > >> > Index: dot.cshrc >> > =================================================================== >> > --- dot.cshrc (revision 231507) >> > +++ dot.cshrc (working copy) >> > _at__at_ -24,8 +24,10 _at__at_ >> > # An interactive shell -- set some stuff up >> > set prompt = "`/bin/hostname -s`# " >> > set filec >> > - set history = 100 >> > - set savehist = 100 >> > + set history = 1000 >> > + set savehist = (1000 merge) >> > + set autolist >> > + set autoexpand >> > set mail = (/var/mail/$USER) >> > if ( $?tcsh ) then >> > bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word >> > >> > Also, a comment pointing to /usr/share/examples/tcsh/complete.tcsh would >> > be a nice addition to the default .cshrc. >> > >> > -- >> > Joel >> >> Joel, with all due respect, do you really think that 99.9% of all >> users will not find the _non_intrusive_ additions below useful? > > You're missing the point. We need to start with something small that we > all can agree on. We'll never reach consensus if we're trying to change > too much at once (just check the amount of messages this topic has created > already). > > -- > Joel Sure thing Joel, I understand that but I still keep in mind what was it that prompted Wojciech to open (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689): FreeBSD should have .cshrc updated for modern hardware and useful aliases installed by default I can see how the bulk of the messages posted in this thread are not aiming towards the first half of that goal, and I sure hope you can see how I didn´t post any aliases, bindkeys, unameit of my liking, except for those unintrusive 4 that I still fail to see how adding them is not a step forward to a ".cshrc updated for modern hardware" given that those 4 keys are on every modern keyboard yet they do no work by default ... Best Regads GonzaloReceived on Sun Feb 12 2012 - 07:44:51 UTC
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