Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #3423, comment 6


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03/28/15 18:24:15 (10 years ago)
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  • Ticket #3423, comment 6

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    77If the environment variable wasn't set, it makes sense to me that `sh` should still be the default, so it wouldn't affect anybody that didn't explicitly set it. I'm not arguing to set `bash` as the default, but have a mechanism in place to configure the default. 
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    9 Neither you, @ossi, nor myself can tell for sure how many people would welcome and use a configurable shell for user menus. 
     9Neither you, @ossi, nor myself can tell for sure how many people would welcome and use a configurable shell for user menus. And one can use incorrectly any shell, although I'd argue: `sh` makes quoting more error-prone than `bash` ! 
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    1111The fact is, strictly from a user's perspective: the user menus is a fabulous feature, at least for myself it beats any other file manager out there (`mc` is the only file manager I have used ever since I started using Linux on my laptop), and being able to code the scriptlets in `bash` would make certain constructs simpler.