In article <1993Jun26.233832.25337@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
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>In article <1993Jun26.225936.2868@cs.ucf.edu> ssd@engr.ucf.edu (Steven Dick) writes:
>>In article <1993Jun26.070313.465@ark.abg.sub.org> you write:
>>>Tilman Burmester writes:
>>>> Furthermore you may change those meta chars. I recommend to use "," because
>>>> it is easier to access on the keyboard than "!" and it is not already in use.
>>>> (Like "!" for UUCP transactions.) Try:
>>
>>But ',' is also used for other things.  Awk uses it for one.
>> ( ... )
>>I think it is evil to change something like this in a common distribution,
>>as it causes things from other-existing documentation to stop working.
>
>Since that isn't practical :-), it might be better to disable history
>chars at all.  I for one don't use them.  I use ^R instead.

Agreed.  I also disable history in bash.  And in csh I set histchars to '^@'
--- note that the @, being the substitution char, doesn't affect Internet
addresses.  It does mean a little more work typing regexps, though...

I disagree with changing the history characters in the distribution:  people
who use them (who I must agree are a bit strange :-) expect !^ so they should
be left that way.

++Brandon
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