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otabdeveloper4
on May 10, 2024
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Elvish, expressive programming language and a vers...
The whole point of an interactive shell is cosmetic convenience.
mrln
on May 10, 2024
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It's not cosmetic in this case. As others have already pointed out, the elvish version handles a few minor but important special cases that bash does not handle.
yoavm
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and perhaps that's why today's shells are not very far from the shells 20 years ago.
pxc
on May 10, 2024
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I don't follow. How does the one explain the other?
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