From: Benjamin Sergeant Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:31:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH guilt] make guilt use standard POSIX shell Message-ID: <1621f9fa0706151531w7878b7b0kf35d615563f4cd07@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070615090104.B20266@mrwint.cisco.com> On 6/15/07, Derek Fawcus wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:50:55PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > This patch series makes guilt be able to work with a standard posix shell. > > > > This has been tested with bash, zsh, dash and posh acting as /bin/sh. > > Well if you want to try with a 'real' bourne shell, there is always the > heirloom sh or the v7 shell... > > http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html >From the main page ''' interactive use. The Bourne shell provides job control if it is invoked as jsh and runs on a terminal. Of course, it lacks fancy features such as a command history, command line completion, etc. But working with these features tends to distract the user's attention. After a familiarization phase, use of the Bourne shell can lead to a more even-tempered, concentrated working style. Give it a try. Seriously. ''' I love it. I acknowledge that you have to be fairly well concentrated if you want to type /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/resources/ (as an example) without missing one char. :) Benjamin. > http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/v7sh.tar > http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/ > > DF > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >