From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Out of the box
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:51:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A6F6A8.4080209@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zja1f317.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org>
On 01/02/2015 10:31 AM, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> Lloyd wrote:
>
> It got me wondering if there are any Unix or Linux distributions that
> exceed expectations with zsh configured out of the box?
If you find one, please let me know, I'll send them a donation and a box
of chocolates.
<anecdote>
About 15 years ago, when I got my first Linux distro actually working
(Slackware), there I am at my first prompt (bash of course). So I try
to use it, and find it's so primitive that DOS/command.com is luxurious
by comparison. Even DOS gives you command recall by default. After a
few hours of retyping commands over and over again, I gave up in disgust
and went back to DOS/Windows for 10 more years :-(
</>
> Personally, I think that vendors should not screw too much with the
> default setup of a program system-wide; not even mentioning the large
> blobs of configuration that newbie's don't have a chance to debug in
> case something fails.
>
> That's being said, I'm one of the guys who help with the zsh confi-
> guration of the grml Linux live distribution, that you can find at:
>
> http://grml.org/zsh/
And what a fine thing the zsh configurator is, it at least gets you off
the ground.
> It's a massive setup and I think for the use of a live installation,
> that's fine. I still stand firm of the issue of handing large setups to
> absolute beginners, for the reason I gave above.
>
But couldn't we at least have history recall by default? It is very
nice that if no .zshrc is found the configurator starts by default, by
why not offer an option in the main menu:
(z) Configure zsh with some basic, safe settings that almost everyone
wants. If you're unsure what to to, just try this. Remember, you can
always run " (some easy way of rerunning zsh-newuser-install)" again to
change these settings, so don't worry, you aren't going to break anything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-02 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-02 18:16 Lloyd
2015-01-02 18:31 ` Frank Terbeck
2015-01-02 19:51 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2015-01-02 20:49 ` Eric Cook
2015-01-02 21:26 ` Ray Andrews
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