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Re: Problem w/ wildcards w/ tcsh
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:15:16PM -0600, Bill Priest wrote:
> Jeff & All,
> Thanks commenting out "set noglob" fixed the problem. It would
> seem to me that set noglob should not be the default in csh.cshrc. This
> is not the case in Linux or Solaris. The csh.cshrc file says that these
Wrong. This is the default setting in /etc/csh.cshrc on one of my
Linux systems.
> are "neat default settings". I don't agree at least for this particular
> one and in general don't care for system wide aliases (but to each his own).
>
> I guess I'm not sure why noglob was ignored in the previous version
> of tcsh (maybe Corinna mentioned it in the release notes and I missed it).
I mentioned in the announcement that from now on there are global config
files for tcsh in /etc. These settings are just start settings. What
nobody actually seem to care about is to _read_ the config files or even
my announcement. Otherwise you would know about the following:
- Don't change /etc/csh.cshrc. If you really need global(!) settings,
add one or more files to /etc/profile.d with the suffix ".csh".
- Otherwise, all the `neat' settings are overridden as soon as the user
has a .cshrc in his/her $HOME. Quote from /etc/csh.cshrc:
# If we find $HOME/.cshrc we skip our settings used for interactive sessions.
if (-r $HOME/.cshrc) goto end
[...]
Which means additionally that I don't comment on this issue again
and that you'll need a really really good reasoning if you want
me to change that file (e.g. an error). And don't forget, regardless
of the content of the system /etc/csh.* files, at least one person
will complain.
Corinna
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