Anybody else here tried the ZSH shell? here are some of the features: - autocd ( just type the name of a directory to get into it, no cd / to type ) - auto complete of some functions by pressing ... - Fully customizable and a great deal more options are customizable. I just had to give it a try yesterday and I just find it pretty cool. Now, I know all about KSH, BSH and BASH, TCSH, CSH, etc. There are dozens if not hundreds of them but ZSH just got me. There''s something cool about the fact of not having to type cd / to change to it. hehehehe... If you''ve ever tried it, I want comments, if you haven''t either try it or don''t post. This is not meant as a flame for which shell is better, I just want people''s opinion on ZSH and that''s it. Don''t compare to other shell''s either, I know most of them already. "DaHjajmajQa''jajHeghmeH!" Cyberdrek danielc@iquebec.com Founder Laval Linux /(bb|[^b]{2})/ that is the Question -- ThinkGeek.com Hash Bang Slash bin Slash Bash -- #!/bin/bash

I''ll give it a try when I get home tomorrow, but I gotta axe you a question about it first. How hard is it to set up the environment? Like BASH usings export= for some stuff, and TCH uses set env for stuff. I just donut want to install the shell and find out certain paths and the such aren''t there anymore.

quote: Original post by Hitchhiker90
I''ll give it a try when I get home tomorrow, but I gotta axe you a question about it first. How hard is it to set up the environment? Like BASH usings export= for some stuff, and TCH uses set env for stuff. I just donut want to install the shell and find out certain paths and the such aren''t there anymore.

First of all, it works in the same manner as BASH does, second, when you try it, you don''t need to set it as the default. Login to bash, type zsh and you''ll be in ZSH. The only thing will be for you to redo your alias'' if you have any. Mandrake has about 12 and I created a bunch myself so I had to copy my alias files. Once you''re in ZSH, you will need to set up the autocomplete which is done by calling 2 small commands which you can probably find in the README. Then type: "man zsh" what this means is type the man command followed with zsh as the topic and then press the key( no space ). This will give you a list of all the man topics related to ZSH. ZSH has great deal of configurations that you can set. They are all discussed in the different man pages.




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I installed ZSH yesterday and set it as the shell when I log in for a user account just so I can get the feel of it. I can''t really say I saw the differences between it and bash.

One of the things I didn''t like about it was when I was running an app in X tonight. I had an Xterm window open, ran an app ''Xchat &'' from the term window, and used it, but I went to exit out of the Xterm window, it warned me I still had processes running, so I thought no problem, it should still run even if I exit the term window, but instead it closed out both the Xterm and Xchat windows. Bash didn''t do this.

quote: Original post by Hitchhiker90
I installed ZSH yesterday and set it as the shell when I log in for a user account just so I can get the feel of it. I can''t really say I saw the differences between it and bash.

One of the things I didn''t like about it was when I was running an app in X tonight. I had an Xterm window open, ran an app ''Xchat &'' from the term window, and used it, but I went to exit out of the Xterm window, it warned me I still had processes running, so I thought no problem, it should still run even if I exit the term window, but instead it closed out both the Xterm and Xchat windows. Bash didn''t do this.

Did you read the Man pages for it? Did you set up the autotab and autocd options? Once these are set up, all you have to do is type in the name of a directory to access it. No need to type "cd" simply the name. It''s an option I find pretty usefull.

As for the XChat & thing, can''t figure out what the problem is as I haven''t run into that problem. It worked fine for me.

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