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I’ve made the dir and cls aliases on Unix for as long as I can remember. And keep dotfiles in git. Yes, computers out of your control won’t have them, but bett

I’ve made the dir and cls aliases on Unix for as long as I can remember. And keep dotfiles in git. Yes, computers out of your control won’t have them, but better to have them 90% (for me 99%) of the time rather than 50%—which is just annoying.

WalterBright 2y ago
cp and copy, and \ and /, etc. My sanity is preserved, however, by having the same editor on all the machines I use. Although I can't get copy/paste to work in a remote text putty window. Sigh.
- mixmastamyk 2y ago
  Yes, many windows things accept /, as I’m sure you know. Have used the ssh command instead, easy install now but twenty years ago had to hunt for openssl/ssh for windows. Console/Winterm should allow paste, though console puts on wrong mouse button of course.
  - WalterBright 2y ago
    > many windows things accept /, as I’m sure you know I do know. But it isn't complete, whether it works or not depends on which command or program you're using. It's not really predictable. Posix programs ported to Windows have similar problems - they often remain case sensitive with filenames. At least all the programs I write work accept both \ and /, and are case sensitive on Posix and case insensitive on Windows.
- CRConrad 2y ago
  > Although I can't get copy/paste to work in a remote text putty window. Sigh. Depends on stuff like what terminal Putty emulates and so on, of course, but... Eh, have you tried using the old "MS/IBM CUA standard shortcut keys, [Ctrl]-[Ins] and [Shift]-[Ins]? (And, for completeness' sake, [Shift]-[Del] for Cut.) AIUI, those are Putty's standard keys for that. I've always assumed that's because, you know, a 'Nix command line would interpret [Ctrl]-[C] rather differently.