For me (a Comms major/IS minor as an undergrad), most of what I'm manipulating is text and shell is just a tool to speed up the process and as such doesn't have

For me (a Comms major/IS minor as an undergrad), most of what I'm manipulating is text and shell is just a tool to speed up the process and as such doesn't have those concerns. Still, I've found Rake and Make - as simple containers for shell rather useful and more flexible - newlines are sane, far less of this `\n` nonsense. ^ An odd complaint, but it just seems like the terminal or the environment should handle this without input from me. Now if only I could do something about Make syntax requiring tabs...