[indiana-discuss] scope

[Tim Bray]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Richard Elling wrote:

> pushd/popd and dirs came from csh.  They are invaluable when you only
> had a terminal.  They are so invaluable that ksh code to implement  
> them
> is on pp 244-247 of "The Kornshell Command and Programming  
> Language" by
> Bolsky and Korn, ISBN 0-13-516972-0.

Right, well, I have a 24" screen with (at this moment in time) 3  
terminals active, all of which have several directories pushed.

I'm not religious about shells.  I am *passionate* that when we  
manage to get a Linux/OS-X user to try Indiana, they don't get rude  
shocks in the first three minutes because some basic piece of  
infrastructure that's wired into their muscle memory doesn't work.

If I get on Solaris and !! or !prefix-of-some-previous-command or  
pushd/popd doesn't work, *that's a bug*.  I don't want to micromanage  
how we fix it.   -Tim