[3181] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat 4.0; misc ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Thu Nov 7 12:58:21 1996
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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 07 Nov 1996 09:39:50 +0100
In-Reply-To: Borg's message of Wed, 06 Nov 1996 23:42:35 -0800
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Borg <"vladimip "@iceonline.com> writes:
> I have to admit my ignorance: I didn't know it existed
> since I never had to change my shell (bash) which is a
> default on FreeBSD and Linux. More than that, I can't
> see why anyone would use something else except bash?
Zsh.
Because it's got what bash has, and quite a few goodies besides. These
include seletive completion (i.e. ghostview only considers ps/eps
files when trying to complete), nicer (read: shorter) for-loops and
arrays with arguments (i.e. make an array with hostnames, which can
then be considered for completion with telnet, ftp etc) and a
"disown"-function, the last one giving you the possibilities of
discoupling the shell and a running process, so you can log of but let
that ftp-session, which turned out to be so slow, continue.
Incidentally, I uploaded zsh-3.0.1 to /pub/Incoming a couple of days
ago (and actually, Red Hat "forgot" to remove my name from the SRPM
shipped with Red Hat 4.0. One of my(now obsolete) patches is included
though, but they did add one of their own for SPARC :-)
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