Re: first questions

Re: first questions

[Kiddle, Oliver]

dado wrote:

> On another front, I'm trying zsh at home too, where I run Win95.

> And is there any plan to give Win32 Zshell it's own interface?
> I can't resize or scroll the buffer. Vim has a nice GUI. It behaves
> pretty much the same as when running on X.

I've never used Win32 zsh so can't help you with the other questions.

There isn't any plans I've heard of to write a Win 95 GUI for zsh. The
problem is the program Microsoft supply for running DOS programs in a window
because it's crap. 
What would be more useful than adding a GUI to win32 zsh (like that of vim)
would
be a separate program which can run any DOS application in a window and
offers scrolling etc. There is a shareware program which can do this: Take
Command. It is based on 4DOS which was a popular command.com replacement
before the Windows era. Anyway, Take Command should be able to run the Win32
version of zsh and give you a scollable buffer. I've never tried it myself
though. You can get it from JP Software - www.jpsoft.com.

Oliver Kiddle

Re: first questions

[Peter Stephenson]

dado wrote:
> For instance, I can't get cdpath to work. I've tryed lowercase,
> uppercase, colon separated, space separated, parenthesis, quotes, and
> all the permutations. How should it be set up?

$cdpath is an array:

cdpath=(/first/dir /second/dir)

while $CDPATH is colon-separated:

CDPATH=/first/dir:/second/dir

and you can use either.

> Also, in some scripts the command echo doesn't print a newline.
> I've tryed bultin, command, and no specifier at all.

That's a definite weirdness.  Try `print' instead --- but maybe your script
is doing something a bit wayward.

> On another front, I'm trying zsh at home too, where I run Win95.
> Forgive me if this list doesn't support the Win32 version and please
> tell me where I should redirect these questions.
> O Windows I can't get to cd <drive>:/path, only <drive>:, and then
> /path.
> Also, I can't get to type ~^`', which I miss a lot.
> And is there any plan to give Win32 Zshell it's own interface?
> I can't resize or scroll the buffer. Vim has a nice GUI. It behaves
> pretty much the same as when running on X.

The Windows port was done by Amol Deshpande <amold@microsoft.com>.  I can't
answer any of those based on my knowledge of the UNIX version.

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first questions

[dado]

Hi all.

I've just switched over to zsh, coming from tcsh, on Irix 6.5
I'm having some minor configuration problems.

For instance, I can't get cdpath to work. I've tryed lowercase,
uppercase, colon separated, space separated, parenthesis, quotes, and
all the permutations. How should it be set up?

Also, in some scripts the command echo doesn't print a newline.
I've tryed bultin, command, and no specifier at all.

On another front, I'm trying zsh at home too, where I run Win95.
Forgive me if this list doesn't support the Win32 version and please
tell me where I should redirect these questions.
O Windows I can't get to cd <drive>:/path, only <drive>:, and then
/path.
Also, I can't get to type ~^`', which I miss a lot.
And is there any plan to give Win32 Zshell it's own interface?
I can't resize or scroll the buffer. Vim has a nice GUI. It behaves
pretty much the same as when running on X.

Thanks a lot.

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