[TUHS] Why does shell write to stderr?

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Sun Apr 10 04:05:05 AEST 2022


John Cowan wrote in
 <CAD2gp_RsFWGUtj-9QDKSG3h8Otxb0ZY5M7G00ZAjV=dKEg+Rsw at mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:53 PM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
 |If you never ring the bell in the editor, the issue never comes up, the
 |> code is simpler, and there's less to understand.
 |
 |Well, yes.  And by the same token, you can eliminate the complexities of
 |i18n by having only one diagnostic, namely "?" (or by pretending all the
 |world is anglophone).
 |
 |But setting aside for the moment this style of argumentation, let's
 |consider directory colorization.  I have no dog in this fight, as I set all
 |my terminals to black-on-white as God and Gutenberg intended, and set TERM

Johannes Gutenberg?  The bible was in parts red-on-white at least,
and had beautiful coloured paintings, too.  (They did not know
about the communist Charlie Chaplin and his Modern Times by then.)

  ...

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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