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Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10
- From: John Cowan <cowan at mercury dot ccil dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:27:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10
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Andrey Repin scripsit:
> Of course, it is efficient.
> More efficient, than starting a shell each time I need to diff a file.
> Or 2-3 shells, if you call a wrapper. Which is least efficient, considering
> retarded CMD quoting rules.
I always have 2-3 shells running, more if I am editing a lot of files.
But you live in a GUI world and I live in a CLI world. This very email,
for example, like almost all my personal emails, is being written from
inside mutt using 'ex'.
And no, cmd does not count as a shell.
> Moral is a relative category.
If you don't know what "moral equivalent" means, either say so or look it up.
*plonk*
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