From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Announcement draft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 23:15:32 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29941.199607312215@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199607312111.XAA25395@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jul 31, 96 11:11:12 pm
>The latest version is zsh-3.0-pre5. It is much more stable than the last
>production release, zsh-2.5.0. More than a thousand bugs have been fixed
>since the release of zsh-2.5.0 (although none counted)
What do you mean by "none counted"? Should that be "no one counted"?
> * a very powerful command-line editor which can even be used to edit
> files
Binary files too, now. I think that's worth a mention.
> * very powerful filename globing which can do almost everything that
> find can do
Does someone want to implement find as a zsh script? It wouldn't
usually be practically useful, but it would be a great demonstration of
zsh's generality.
You didn't mention the enormous number of builtins.
>Additionally zsh is probably one of the most portable program available
>for Unix. It uses GNU autoconf and it builds out of the box on most
>systems.
Remove "probably".
If it's not in yet, some mention of the swapping of -1 and -C should be
added to the FAQ.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-31 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-31 21:11 Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-31 22:15 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-08-01 6:36 ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-08-01 8:31 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 9:04 ` Running zsh as sh (Was: Announcement draft) Bas V. de Bakker
1996-08-01 9:10 ` Announcement draft Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-01 13:49 ` Here docs Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 14:07 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 16:27 ` More Configure problems Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 17:40 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 17:55 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 21:03 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 23:30 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02 8:32 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-02 10:03 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-02 13:29 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02 1:03 ` Zefram
1996-08-01 14:42 ` Announcement draft Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-08 15:13 ` sh compatibility again :-> Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-12 2:18 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-12 4:36 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12 5:00 ` Zefram
1996-08-12 6:01 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12 6:34 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12 6:20 ` Andrej Borsenkow
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