From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31501 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Apr 2003 22:26:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2575 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2003 22:26:30 -0000 From: Caleb Shay To: merv@spidernet.com.cy Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3E9F3F22.11674.FADE22F@localhost> References: <20030416224428.GA31419@datalap.aamit.com> <3E9F3F22.11674.FADE22F@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050618384.29994.5.camel@chinstrap.penguins.homeunix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 17 Apr 2003 18:26:24 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python X-Archives-Salt: 16e6786f-ebeb-4e1d-adfe-3f451bea88f1 X-Archives-Hash: 139371941bf6867dc2c10eb54ba8bc83 On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 16:56, merv wrote: > > >From my own point of view, the underlying theme of the idea is the > concept of a more "extensible" shell. I saw this line and thought "A plugin extensible shell, how cool would that be? You want perl regexps? Load the preg extension. Don't use tab-completion? Don't load the tab-completion extension and save some ram. A quick google turns up: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxsh/ Doesn't look like it's seen much activity lately, but what a great idea! Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list