From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA01848 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:38:37 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA01122; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 18:34:44 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 18:34:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <29941.199607312215@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Announcement draft To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 23:15:32 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199607312111.XAA25395@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jul 31, 96 11:11:12 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7894.63 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"-fMEq3.0.SH.4-z_n"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1855 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >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