someone had creative idea to replace csh with sh without porting "useless" 
features over. partial history search is one example. thankfully csh is still 
there. i get that some people use bash everywhere as interactive shell which i 
don't. funnily i can't even find way to configure it in bash? i've always used 
that feature since 4.6 and i would be surprised if answer is nobody needs that. 
it was added and enabled for a reason. how come now we say it's not needed? sh 
got several interactive use help features but who decided and what? i expect 
many fbsd users and dev have used it way before 4.6. was it like bash all the 
way or...? noone even used csh? the default? if so, why was the shell csh until 
now? why was it even changed? and why was it changed to sh? granted, no other 
shells but. maybe we could upgrade sh so you can also interactively actually 
use it. but for now i just need to change it back


p.s.: i also never got and never get why there's tendency to bully users off of 
using some software. csh is one of them



On August 1, 2025 5:22:18 PM GMT+03:00, David Chisnall <[email protected]> 
wrote:
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>[1] I’ve noticed on fresh installs, the default shell no longer has working 
>persistent history, which is a *big* POLA violation, if people want to 
>complain about something.

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