On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 11:27, Eric Hattemer wrote:
Considering that other shells don't do this, it seems strange,
although
not fundamentally wrong. Someone might delete their .zshrc on purpose,
then get it back the next day automatically. But also, if someone ftped
into their account, saw all these . files, and randomly started deleting
them because they didn't understand them, at least zsh would
automatically rebuild that stuff. That's a problem at my university
where a .login file is necessary for the default csh to function almost
I'd say the user just mustn't do that then ;-). The user can also
accidentally move some binary craft into .zshrc which would probably
cause it to go berserk and eat his mail ;-). I agree that it would be
nice to detect such screwups and _ask_ the user if the default
configuration shall be installed over the binary cruft the shell found.
But a missing .zshrc is a very valid configuration for me, so that
wouldn't apply here.
at all. So I agree it would be something you'd have to get
zsh.org to
accept, and it'd be controversial and different, though not neccessarily
logically wrong.
Nils
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