From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7005 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 07:00:38 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 07:00:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 8645 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2003 07:00:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6033 Received: (qmail 8638 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 07:00:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 07:00:07 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [80.91.224.249] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 7:0:7 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194xw8-0007dk-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:59:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194xw7-0007db-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:59:27 +0200 From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: ZSH on Dos/Windows - the end Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:59:58 +0200 Message-ID: <164cbuig93cvl.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <200304050139220710.001E4844@127.0.0.1> <200304051059200520.000D11E0@127.0.0.1> <200304051353440930.00ACC4C4@127.0.0.1> <1e2co8dovf08r.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> <200304061248380080.0081454B@127.0.0.1> <200304132140590060.002A864D@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.3.1 Sender: news * Luciano ES (03-04-14 02:40 +0100) > My only complaint, a big one, is that Cygwin freezes too often when I call > Bash or ZSH. The console window opens, but the shell won't start. Then I > have to Ctrl+Alt+Del and kill bash or zsh and winoldap and try again. It > happens in over half of all the times I launch the shell, with or without > rxvt. REALLY annoying. Virus Scanner? Windows 98? > On the other hand, Thorsten, you told me to RTFM several times, and that's > not always the best answer. Recommended readings: "A workshop on Zsh" by Larry P. Schrof "A User's Guide to the Z-Shell" by Peter Stephenson "An Introduction to the Z Shell" by Paul Falstad and of course the "Z-Shell Frequently-Asked Questions" > My question about the changes from zsh 3.0.5 to the latest, was made totally > on purpose. These change logs most often don't mean anything to a newbie. > Since I don't use the program/language/whatever, I have no way to assess > the impact of any given change, changes made when I didn't even know the > program/language/whatever existed, so I cannot pinpoint the most relevant > changes in a long and strange list. I still don't know which of those > changes are the most relevant, [...] The completion system changed and is much more usable but your question was too general and the changes were too many to answer this sufficiently. The main difference between /your/ old zsh (Amol's zsh) and your new one is that cygwin's zsh is a vanilla/Unix zsh and Amol's was a "hacked" Windows one. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18