Re: Useful Features?

[<dep...@i3...>]

Hi,

> I will agree that for C-shell users, life is difficult.  Especially in
> Modules.  The reason is that each shell will source ~/.cshrc but only
> login shells also source ~/.login.  Hence, one must put all path stuff
> in the .cshrc file which is not a good thing.  For that reason alone I
> recommend a Korn shell (or [patched-with-latest-security-patch] Bash)
> which is much more friendly with the ~/.profile and $ENV file.
Why sould one put the path-things in .cshrc? I thought, the value of
PATH in a further shell is the same as in the login shell?


> > The package system also has short descriptions in its listing of
> > available packages.  
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> Go for it.  There is no reason why one couldn't have short help,
> medium help, long help or whatever.  Remember, Modules is extensible,
> though I don't yet agree that you need to extend Modules to add this
> feature.  Just write clever modulefiles.

In 'user-setup' there's something like this implemented with modules.
Just look at their module-file-examples.

dpi