[TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> > I break with the past for character-erase, though: backspace, not #.

At one time, it was fashionable in Australia to claim that #/@ were 
"traditional" in some sense (probably because the DEC assembler used them 
as sigils), and when a US visitor came out he announced that most US sites 
switched away from them, to the sound of dropping jaws.

> Do you still consider '^' the shell's inter-command pipe character?

I was surprised when "chdir" became "cd", but I suppose it fits the 
philosophy of 2-letter commands.

-- Dave