[2952] in testers
Re: global cshrc change suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Wed Jun 19 17:39:34 1996
To: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU, marc@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:38:51 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
>> I'm also having difficulty imagining how this change is a significant
>> feature and why we'd want to make it regardless. (In the only scenario
>> I can think of, our not making the change might cause one to add an
>> if ($?athena_path) line in the cshrc.mine.)
Intuitiveness.
set path = ($path ~/weird/dir)
is intuitive.
set path = ($HOME/$bindir $athena_path . ~/weird/dir )
is not, and in addition, has the undesireable feature of hardcoding
part of the athena dotfiles into the user's dotfiles. I'd like to see
the former construct work. I don't care all that much, though.
Marc
