cool features like completion of abbreviated directory hierarchies?

cool features like completion of abbreviated directory hierarchies?

[Eric De Mund]

Peter, All,

Peter Stephenson <p DOT w DOT stephenson AT ntlworld DOT com>:
] Vincent spotted a completion problem with completion of abbreviated
] directory hierarchies like /u/lo/li. I think I've found the fix and
] if so I'll make 4.3.9 tomorrow.

I'm now in my 19th year of using Zsh, and this is one very cool feature
that I was completely unaware of. I'm sure there are a ton more. Where
can I go to find an overview of such cool features?

Regards,
Eric
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history (was: cool features like completion of abbreviated directory hierarchies?)

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:02:08PM -0700, Eric De Mund wrote:
[...]
> I'm now in my 19th year of using Zsh
[...]

Hi Eric,

Is zsh really that old? For some reason, 1991 was the date I had
in mind for the first public release.

But I can see some code copyrighted 1990. The changelog in the
current sources go only as far back as 2.6-beta1 (1994), I think
I must have started using it around 97 so probably a 3.x
already.

Is there any place where we can download the old releases? I
have got a 2.00.03 on my hard disk for some reason, but there's
no changelog in there I can see.

Cheers,
Stéphane

Re: cool features like completion of abbreviated directory hierarchies?

[zzapper]

Eric De Mund wrote in news:1225321328.27046@bear.he.net:

> Peter, All,
> 
> Peter Stephenson <p DOT w DOT stephenson AT ntlworld DOT com>:
>] Vincent spotted a completion problem with completion of abbreviated
>] directory hierarchies like /u/lo/li. I think I've found the fix and
>] if so I'll make 4.3.9 tomorrow.
> 
> I'm now in my 19th year of using Zsh, and this is one very cool feature
> that I was completely unaware of. I'm sure there are a ton more. Where
> can I go to find an overview of such cool features?
Which cool feature? Could some kind soul please explain?

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Re: cool features like completion of abbreviated directory hierarchies?

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:21:24AM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> Eric De Mund wrote in news:1225321328.27046@bear.he.net:
> 
> > Peter, All,
> > 
> > Peter Stephenson <p DOT w DOT stephenson AT ntlworld DOT com>:
> >] Vincent spotted a completion problem with completion of abbreviated
> >] directory hierarchies like /u/lo/li. I think I've found the fix and
> >] if so I'll make 4.3.9 tomorrow.
> > 
> > I'm now in my 19th year of using Zsh, and this is one very cool feature
> > that I was completely unaware of. I'm sure there are a ton more. Where
> > can I go to find an overview of such cool features?
> Which cool feature? Could some kind soul please explain?
[...]

As said above, if you press <Tab> after /u/lo/li, it will
complete to /usr/local/lib, if you've set up the completion
right (you may want to run compinstall again to learn about
features that have been added recently).

-- 
Stéphane

Re: history (was: cool features like completion of abbreviated directory hierarchies?)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-10-30 08:27:52 +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Is zsh really that old? For some reason, 1991 was the date I had
> in mind for the first public release.

On <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsh>:

  The first version of zsh was written by Paul Falstad in 1990 when
  he was a student at Princeton University.

> But I can see some code copyrighted 1990. The changelog in the
> current sources go only as far back as 2.6-beta1 (1994), I think
> I must have started using it around 97 so probably a 3.x
> already.

I don't remember when I started using it, but I have a copy of my .zshrc
from 1995-08-10, I subcribed to the zsh-users mailing-list on 1995-09-23
and I posted my first message on 1995-10-20:

  http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/1995/msg00104.html

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Re: cool features like completion of abbreviated directory hierarchies?

[Richard Hartmann]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 00:02, Eric De Mund <ead@ixian.com> wrote:

> I'm now in my 19th year of using Zsh,

Wow.


> and this is one very cool feature
> that I was completely unaware of. I'm sure there are a ton more. Where
> can I go to find an overview of such cool features?

I suggest buying "From Bash to Z Shell". Great book.


Richard