From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Subject: Re: annoying bash quirk Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 14:35:05 GMT
andy@madhouse.demon.co.uk (Andrew Bray) writes:
>justifications for what is distributed with SLS:
>1) For teaching purposes about the uses of `.
>2) So the profile would work even under a true Bourne shell.
>Both justifications are a bit weak, IMHO, so I would suggest to Peter
>that he changes this aspect of the SLS, for what I think is a very
>good reason:
Personally, I'm glad it was in there, as it did help me to learn
about that trick a lot faster than brousing the bash man page(s) would
have. If it's changed, I'd suggest commenting it out rather than
deleting it, as the example is handy.
If you want to see slow, you should have seen the abomination I
came up with to put colours in my prompt with setterm before I figured
out how to get escape sequences working. 4 calls to setterm take a
longggg time.
On a similar topic, I guess there's no way to search a man page
for text that's highlighted or bolded as the charater codes seen to
interfere.
-- John Henders GO/MU/E d* -p+ c+++ l++ t- m* s/++ g+ w+++ -x+