Re:What's your favorite OS feature of all time?
by qjz on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @04:19PM
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My favorite is X11's select-to-copy, middle-click-to-paste feature. It bewilders me that this isn't standard on all platforms. It only takes two simple clicks to copy and paste, yet some people find it unintuitive (or even downright hate it). I think it's a huge time-saver.
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Re:What's your favorite OS feature of all time?
by SwellJoe on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @04:58PM
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This was instantly what came to mind for me, followed by tab completion in the shell (expanded by the bash-completion package to become utter perfection).
Re:What's your favorite OS feature of all time?
by stsmytherie on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @05:09PM
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Tab completion is a good one! According to Wikipedia, "one of the first examples appeared in the Berkeley Timesharing System for the SDS 940" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_completion).
Re:What's your favorite OS feature of all time?
by _b8r0 on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @05:57PM
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Utter perfection is unfortunately limited to ZShell's bash completion, but I know what you mean - I experience it every time I log into a Solaris box and have to use CSH.
Don't get me wrong, Cshell is good too syntactically speaking, but the completion on Solaris 8 is a little, meh.
BTW - we have a dojo with different versions of Solaris going back to god knows when, that's why I'm using CSH - would not use Solaris 8 in production anymore.