Re: i

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> wrote:
> > > All file names with a single character and also most of the file names
> > > with two characters are probably name space pollution.

rdm@test.legislate.com (Raul Miller) wrote:
> > Um... let's not get carried away with this namespace censorship thing.
> 
Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> wrote:
> "Censorship"? Get real.

Censorship is the process of removing objectional material.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Get real."

> > Raul, a fond user of ar, as, at, bc, cc, ci, co, cp, dc, df, du, ed, es,
> > ex, gs, id, ld, ln, ls, m4, mv, nm, od, pr, rc, rm, sh, su, tr, vi, and
> > wc.

> Of these, I'd say es, gs, and rc are definitely needless namespace  
> pollution. The others are unfortunate historical choices it's much too  
> late to do anything about, even if I wish there was everytime I mistype  
> "ci" instead of "vi". Note that C is next to V on most keyboards. Ugh!

rc is the standard plan9 shell, es is an enhanced version of it.
If you don't want them, don't install them.

-- 
Raul


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