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Jason Stokes (j.stokes@bohm.anu.edu.au) wrote:

: Having dozens of different text-editors, each having their own unique keyboard
: short-cuts to do the same things is *not* ergonomic.

This argument always amazes me.  Being able to use the same editor no
matter what i am doing _is_ ergonomic.  Just because there are 'dozens' of
editors doesn't mean i have to use more than 1.

: Vi and Elvis are never ergonomic.

Perhaps. If you don't like them on a Unix system, don't use them, use one
of the other editors, after all there are 'dozens' by your own admission.

: Commands that give no indication of their activity, or any information on
: successful completion (ie rm *) are *not* ergonomic.

rm=remove. It actually makes sense to me (as much sense as del=delete).
man rm is your friend :-)

: Commands that don't have safety checks for particularly dangerous commands
: are *not* ergonomic (ie rm -rf .*)

-f is force.
-i is interactive.  Many systems have "rm -i" aliased to rm by default for
your protection.

Are you really suggesting that if i want to delete 10,000 file i should
answer yes to each one?  Remember, unix has no equivalent of deltree for
safety reasons.  rmdir check to see if a directory is empty before
unlinking it.  Someone could write a unix 'deltree' of course.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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