Re: Chronology (was Re: %B%~%b bug in $PROMPT in 3.1.5 ?)

[Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Reviewing a few extremely old email messages, I find that it was
> setopt incompatibilities that finally stopped me from using the
> later 2.4s and on through 2.5.  Those setopt changes were designed
> to promote Bourne shell (not ksh) compatibility, by disabling a
> number of csh features, and caused syntax errors in many people's rc
> files at my site.

Presumably csh incompatibility isn't such an issue nowadays?  I think
Solaris gives ksh as the default, and of course Linux and *BSD people
presumably would choose bash more than csh, so compatibility with ksh
and bash would be more important?

I'm not entirely sure, though.  Most people here seem to use csh or
tcsh, for whatever reason.