Getting a more involving, analogue CA system: It starts on the command-line

[wgscott]

This is the best thing since tubed processors!

 

 

 

Get a Fun Vintage Terminal for Mac with Cool Retro Term | OSXDaily

[mansr]

Wow, even has jitter. Missing wow and flutter though.

[wgscott]

Yeah, and the effect would be much more convincing if the login shell was csh.

[Richard Dale]

Yeah, and the effect would be much more convincing if the login shell was csh.

 

I have this prompt in my ~/.bashrc file for C shell nostalgia reasons:

 

PS1='\h \u \!% '

 

Giving a prompt with a retro '%' like this:

 

x220 rdale 308%

[mansr]

Yeah, and the effect would be much more convincing if the login shell was csh.

Ugh. At my university the default was tcsh. Couldn't change it quickly enough.

[wgscott]

tcsh at least isn't as big a mess as csh.

 

Here is my prompt, fwiw:

 

zsh-%

 

I need to breathe some life back into this:

 

https://code.google.com/archive/p/zsh-templates-osx/

[mansr]

tcsh at least isn't as big a mess as csh.

 

Here is my prompt, fwiw:

 

zsh-%

Tcsh is basically csh with command line editing and history. Makes it somewhat palatable for interactive use but it still sucks.

[wgscott]

I've actually known a few people who prefer to write shell scripts with it. I understand why people might use it for a command-line experience, but to use it for shell programming??? It doesn't even have functions.

 

I think there used to be some huge bugs in csh, that prompted adoption of tcsh.

[mansr]

I've actually known a few people who prefer to write shell scripts with it. I understand why people might use it for a command-line experience, but to use it for shell programming??? It doesn't even have functions.

 

I think there used to be some huge bugs in csh, that prompted adoption of tcsh.

That rings a bell now that you mention it. Can't remember the details.

 

POSIX shell can be quite annoying too. Ever tried writing a recursive function without local variables? Turns out it's possible through creative use of 'eval' but it ain't pretty.