From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16959 invoked from network); 19 Aug 1998 12:42:57 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Aug 1998 12:42:57 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA01243; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:32:38 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:32:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Lotus-FromDomain: PC-PLUS From: "Stephen Riehm" To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:34:20 +0200 Subject: Re: zsh - new user with questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Resent-Message-ID: <"FwZZO2.0.-I.RNisr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1735 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Hi Again, firstly, thanks to all those who replied, some of the tips were exactly what I was looking for. The expand-or-complete-prefix tip however didn't work, as then the -list function only works when you've already typed something. ie: cd /usr/ doesn't complete, and doesn't produce a list - ( I don't like using the menu stuff, by the time I've hit tab 50 times I could have easily typed any name I might be searching for), first when you type another character does it start showing lists again, ie: cd /usr/l lib/ local/ The way I work at the moment, I used the expand-or-complete-or-list functionality instead of having to use 'ls' all the time - which works great with case-insensitive completion and list-when-ambiguous. (ie: I often provide support by phone, they tell me to cd to /home/user/Dev/ProductTest-1.2 - spoken as slash home user dev product test one point two. I'm sure you can see where case insensitivity and list-when-ambiguous comes in really handy here. in tcsh I'ld probably type /home/user/devprod.2 and I'ld be there, or if there was an ambiguity, I'ld imediately see what choices I had.) I'm not really complaining, I just find these features extremely helpful, and I miss them a lot :-) If there's a wishlist or a todo list for zsh, I would really like to add this feature to it! (I personally think the Amiga dudes got it right back in '86 when they made the file names were only stores case sensitive - but all operations at OS level were case insensitive - thus it was impossible to have ReadMe and README in the same directory. I personally think this reduces possible confusion, (does make read Makefile or makefile first?) and makes case insensitive completion trivial. - just my 2cents) Thanks again, Steve