[666] in athena10
Re: attach -e
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Dec 2 17:25:01 2008
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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:24:15 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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Greg Price wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:47:00PM -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
>> Changing a behavior that has existed for years is just as
>> complicated. And this won't affect scripts or anything. If you want
>> to use, say, "hes", in a script, then you explicitly refer to /mit/
>> consult/bin/hes, and it works.
>>
>
> No, it doesn't work in Athena 9 and it wouldn't work in Athena 10 if
> we modified detach to start working again and someone (or the same
> user, in broder's proposal) had run `detach consult`.
>
> detach should probably become a complete no-op, because of the UI bug
> it now causes for some experienced Athena <=9 users like wdc.
>
> Greg
>
We...could make detach a shell alias for add -r...
- Evan
