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From: Jean-Francois Lamy
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1989 14:08
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1989 14:08
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a) a .bashrc that contains if [ "$PS1" != "" && $SHLVL -gt 1 ] then echo bah fi will cause bash to dump core; said code appears to produce an error message (cryptic as it may be) as it should when the shell is run interactively b) [ error messages for csh operators used by mistake should be fixed; with the large population of tcsh users you can expect to see migrating, this will count as a large class of errors while people rewire their brains. I'd really like to see "==": illegal operator, "&&": dumping core, and other informative messages. c) Can the &#^*%&! insertion of a * at the beginning of the prompt when a line is edited be turned off? it appears as well that only the prompt is shifted as well, which is disconcerting if not wrong. d) there should be a wholesale way to get emacs behaviour for cut and paste (NUL sets mark, ^W cuts, ^Y pastes). Few users I know that use emacs regularly rely on the pre-tcsh behaviour. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
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Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!lamy From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) Subject: && causing bash to dump core, varia Message-ID: <89Jun29.100903edt.10374@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 10:08:59 EDT