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Re: bash and the delete key
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: Jon LaBadie <jcyg at jgcomp dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:53:43 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: bash and the delete key
--- Jon LaBadie <jcyg@jgcomp.com> wrote:
> > For example:
> >
> > # Aliases for Windows equivalents; see 'info fileutils' for differences
> > alias md='mkdir'
> > alias rd='rmdir'
>
> ARRGH!
>
> I use cygwin to make my brief as possible stay on windows acceptable.
> I don't see the need to institutionalize the use of windows syntax
> in a unix-like environment.
Well, it's totally up to the maintainer, of course. And, funny thing,
sf.net actually puts these in the default alias file. I don't think they're
running cygwin on win2k servers or anything.
> Next I guess you will want cd /bin to work without a space after cd
> like it does in windows.
Funny, I though that was up to the shell... hmmm, nope, my bash under
windows doesn't work that way.
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