Zsh for client programming

Zsh for client programming

[Tyler Spivey]

Ok. Wacky idea here. I'm interested in mudding, but don't like the mud
clients that are available. I think a shell script would work, if I
could get zsh to do the following:
1. read output from the server and print it, while reading input from me
and sending it out. That's the most important.
2. be able to use readline while reading input. Has a zsh module been
developped for readline? Can this be done?
Thanks,
Tyler

Re: Zsh for client programming

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 20,  7:19pm, Tyler Spivey wrote:
}
} 1. read output from the server and print it, while reading input from me
} and sending it out. That's the most important.

See the zftp functions and the zsh/net/tcp module.

} 2. be able to use readline while reading input. Has a zsh module been
} developped for readline?

No, a module for readline has not been developed, because ZLE has been
lots better.  (Recent versions of readline may be catching up.)  You
can use the "vared" command to access ZLE from a script, or you could
just run the mud client as function calls from the normal shell prompt.

Re: Zsh for client programming

[Peter Stephenson]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Sep 20,  7:19pm, Tyler Spivey wrote:
> }
> } 1. read output from the server and print it, while reading input from me
> } and sending it out. That's the most important.
> 
> See the zftp functions and the zsh/net/tcp module.

In particular, read the zshtcpsys manual page if you are using TCP.

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