vi bug(feature?) (really csh)

David Elliott dce at hammer.UUCP
Thu Sep 5 00:45:02 AEST 1985


In article <155 at graffiti.UUCP> peter at graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Oh yeh, my main gripe with CSH: It expands *history* in non-interactive shells,
>which makes it a pain to do a uucp mail from vi, which also expands history.
>My solution? At the end of my .cshrc I add the line: "setenv SHELL /bin/sh".

How about this for weird:

	% cat foo
	#!/bin/csh -f
	set histchars=""
	echo !!
	echo ""
	echo " "
	% foo
	!!

	%

I know what "feature" I'm going to add to my manual pages.

			David Elliott



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