From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27973 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2000 03:44:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Mar 2000 03:44:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 4881 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2000 03:44:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2986 Received: (qmail 4870 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2000 03:44:16 -0000 Sender: "Andrew Morton" Message-ID: <38E2C6AA.62D027CD@asiapacificm01.nt.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 03:14:50 +0000 From: "Andrew Morton" Organization: Nortel Networks, Wollongong Australia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.3.99-pre2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: New user questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I just joined. For the past 10-15 years I have been using the original AT&T bourne shell into which I have hacked various interactive editing functions. The time has come to dump this thing - the maintenance is too high. I'd like to use zsh and I must say that I am _very_ impressed by the quality and professionalism of the website, documentation, mailing list and software. Congratulations! A few little problems I have observed: 1: When I printed zsh_a4.ps on an HP LaserJet 4 the last few columns were truncated. 2: When I installed zsh-3.1.6dev20-1mdk (Mandrake's RPM) I notice that 'man zshall' produces 11 lines of the form: :291: can't open `man1/zshmisc.1': No such file or directory :292: can't open `man1/zshexpn.1': No such file or directory And a few questions, please. I am trying to emulate some functions of which I have become very fond and there are just a few which for I have not been able to find the zsh equivalents: Impromptu directory listing --------------------------- prompt> cd /usr/src/li^R linux/ linux-2.2.9/ linux-2.3.99-pre3/ linux-akpm/ So typing ^R in a command line produces a diectory listing of matching files and allows you to continue typing. insert-previous-line -------------------- pwold011:~> /sbin/shutdown shutdown: must be root. pwold011:~> sudo ^W Here, typing ^W will insert _all_ of the previous line at the prompt. (I'd expected get-line to do this, but it just beeps...) backward-search-word -------------------- prompt> cp /foo/bar /zot/bop prompt> ls /fo^C Here, ^C will search back through the word history and insert '/foo/bar'. If I immediately hit ^C again, it will rub out the 'o/bar' and search further back in history, so one can just keep hitting ^C. ^C -- This normally generates interrupt. Is there a way of making it available to the interactive editor without globally sttying it? (The shell would need to restore the intr char when it leaves editing mode). Bidirectional directory history ------------------------------- I'd like to be able to 'cd' back to somewhere where I used to be. I have this set up nicely using popd. But once I've gone back a few levels with multiple popd's I would like to go forward again. A ring, rather than a stack. Possible? insert-previous-word -------------------- The insert-last-word widget will insert the last word of the previous line. Hitting it again inserts the last word of the line before that. I would like to do something similar, but have it walk back through all the previous words, not just the final ones on each line: prompt> echo aaa bbb ccc ddd prompt> echo ^O # Expands to echo ddd prompt> echo ^O^O # Expands to echo ccc etc forward-kill-line ----------------- Is there a widget which deletes from the cursor to the end of line? Changing separators ------------------- All the editor commands define a word separator as a space. Is there a way of changing zsh's idea of word separators? I would prefer that it consider '/' to be a separator as well. redraw ------ If asynchronous output mucks up the editor output, how to redraw it? 'clear-screen' will do the job, but I'd prefer it not clear the screen. Thanks!