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Re: regarding login prompt
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- From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
- To: "ZSH Users" <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: regarding login prompt
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:27:58 +0100
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Boyd Adamson wrote:
> OT: Out of interest, why is it that zsh uses the % by convention? It
> seems (as a relative newcomer) to be more rooted in the bourne shell
> tradition, yet the % has historically been used by csh.
Zsh was originally written to make csh users feel at home in a ksh-like
environment, so the interactive features that didn't affect scripting
often looked a lot like csh.
It might well have been different if it were done now, but actually I'm
quite happy with "%" since "\" is already rather overloaded in shells.
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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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