From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: PATH variable case-insensitive?
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:54:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150205165449.088fd96a@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150205163828.31617aec@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:38:28 +0000
Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> ...if you're expecting zsh run in the
> default fashion to be strictly POSIX-compatible, you're in for a *lot*
> of surprises.
We really ought to be upfront about this at the start of the manual (hi,
Manuel)... we say it's "not completely compatible" with ksh, but that's
a bit weaselly. The Sourceforge page puts this a bit better. We should
probably say something like...
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo b/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo
index 5184928..f9aa700 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/manual.yo
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ texitop(The Z Shell Manual)
texiifinfo(\
This Info file documents Zsh, a freely available UNIX command interpreter
(shell), which of the standard shells most closely resembles the Korn shell
-(ksh), although it is not completely compatible.
+(ksh), although it is not completely compatible. Zsh is able to emulate
+POSIX shells, but its default mode is not POSIX compatible, either.
cindex(version)
Version version(), last updated date().
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-05 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-05 15:56 Koch
2015-02-05 16:18 ` Kurtis Rader
2015-02-05 16:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-02-05 16:54 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2015-02-05 16:38 ` ZyX
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