jghub

@gordonwoodhull: I am very happy that my "SOS call" reached you (it was a last resort after months of trying otherwise) and that you care to intervene/help. a first feedback:...

@siteshwar we will not reach full consensus in our assessment but for the record: > * It was me and not @krader1961 who made the choice to use meson/ninja as...

@siteshwar: shortly coming back to the actual starting point of this thread. thank you for reopening it. I'd also request to relabel it as a bug and to remove the...

> > define "irrelevant". problem starts here... > > > > > Removing code that was related to supercomputers that became obsolete in the 90s. I can't find relevant commit...

principally, I agree with everything @gordonwoodhull has proposed/decided: thank you. I disagree with @siteshwar that this would be the "death of ksh". rather to the contrary. going on without a...

I would advice, for the time being, to go back to using /bin/ksh on OSX which is the last stable release of ksh93 (i.e. ksh93u+). vi mode works just fine...

@matvore: > I am new to ksh and I assumed the latest version would be the best. Reading some of the issues here, it hopefully you stay with it. benchmarking...

> This is a [heisenbug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug). This bug is present in ksh93u+. in the so-called "stable" ksh2020 release it is 100% reproducible in OSX (like for the OP). nothing of a...

you ask why `cd -` an `cd ~-` produce "different failure modes". answer: because these are two different commands. read the manpage.... NOTE: the error messages you report are _not_...

yes, that is a very strange and very wrong, but no longer surprising, assessment by krader1961. it also makes me wonder where he sees _any_ useful application for ksh: he...