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From: Thilo Six on 5 Apr 2010 17:50
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 05.04.2010 22:26

> On 2010-04-05 14:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
>> 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
>>
>> And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
>> No kidding!
>>
>> How do I get back to what I had?
>> Anybody?
>>
>
> Real Geeks do not use file managers. bash (or zsh if you're an Uber
> Real Geek) Is Sufficient.

So you're saying i am a �ber hacker (i prefer that acronym) but still
it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.


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From: Ron Johnson on 5 Apr 2010 22:10
On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote the following on 05.04.2010 22:26
>
>> On 2010-04-05 14:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
>>> 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
>>>
>>> And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
>>> No kidding!
>>>
>>> How do I get back to what I had?
>>> Anybody?
>>>
>> Real Geeks do not use file managers. bash (or zsh if you're an Uber
>> Real Geek) Is Sufficient.
>
> So you're saying i am a �ber hacker

I don't know enough of your accomplishments to grant the title Hacker.

(i prefer that acronym)

RAM is an acronym; "geek" and "hacker" are *not*.

but still
> it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.
>

You're correct: bash is the right tool for the job.

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From: Matthew Moore on 5 Apr 2010 23:30
On Monday April 5 2010 7:59:59 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:
> > but still
> > it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.
>
> You're correct: bash is the right tool for the job.

Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if zsh is
not the right tool for the job, then it is not, in fact, a job.

MM


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From: Brian Ryans on 6 Apr 2010 00:40
Quoting Matthew Moore on 2010-04-05 22:22:55:
> Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if zsh is
> not the right tool for the job, then it is not, in fact, a job.

Welcome to my random-sigblock file, Matthew, even though it's over 69
charaters.

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From: Sjoerd Hardeman on 6 Apr 2010 04:40
Ron Johnson schreef:
> On 2010-04-05 22:22, Matthew Moore wrote:
>> On Monday April 5 2010 7:59:59 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:
>>>> but still
>>>> it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.
>>> You're correct: bash is the right tool for the job.
>>
>> Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if
>> zsh is not the right tool for the job, then it is not, in fact, a job.
>>
>
> Linux (and Unix, for that matter) does not have the concept of the "job"
>
> Business-oriented operating systems (like OpenVMS, MVS/OS, OS/400 and
> other legacy systems) do, but any operating system without a batch queue
> (which is, naturally, to where you submit jobs) can not have "jobs".
Then please file a bug report to rename the inaptly named "jobs" command

Sjoerd

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