On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 17:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-08 14:42, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>>> I haven't yet tried chsh to find out what will
>>> happen but am in a position to do that on a throwaway account created
>>> for the purpose and find out.
>>
>> I wouldn't use dash as my login shell, it lacks readline support which
>> I am relying heavily on and I'd be suprised to hear YMDV.
>
> Yech. An interactive shell w/o readline is useless!
Please don't be that harsh, here's another section of "Siggy's musings
about early *nix days":
For short, when you don't have readline you develop a habit of writing
tiny #!/bin/sh <wink> scripts with the help of ed(1) (no readline either).
I've programmed quite a bit in K&R C using ed(1) then.
no bad feelings
Siggy
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