From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA20120 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 02:06:15 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA09152 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:55:56 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA15068; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:52:12 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:54:33 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:54:34 -0400 From: gene@sapience.com (Gene Cohler) Message-Id: <9507171154.ZM3324@cogent.sapience.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:54:33 -0400 X-Company: Bear Stearns & Co X-Phone: (212) 272-2944 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 15feb95) To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: 2.6beta10 - a users comment. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-Id: <"ijSoC3.0.Mh3.hSe2m"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/221 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu First off praise for the excellent shell and the extraordinary effort (and clearly knowledge) you all do to keep it at the forefront. I have just switched from 2.5.03 to 2.6-beta10 and I should like to pass along a couple of comments. (My system is HPUX s700/9.01 o When I now 'su user' command line editing ceases to work. No amount of 'bindkey -v' gets it back. Control chars print nothing when typed but hitting return causes an execution attempt. For example: ESC k prints nothing but after a return: % zsh: command not found: ^[k Things seems 'messed up' in other ways too. For example I can backspace over the prompt and even thru to previous lines. The workaround I have found is to 'rlogin localhost' which is really not massively pleasant. Curiously 'su root' works fine. Observation: After the 'su' the variable TTY becomes unset and unsetable: Is this related ? The variable BAUD turns to 0. --> Help ? o vi editing: the '.' command has changed. If I recall a line and want to change 2 instances of a word with another - in the earlier version I sould move cursor to start of 'word1' and 'cw' and change to new value. Then move cursor to 'word2' and '.' This erases word2 but does not replace the text. The new behaviour is not consistent with the vi editor. --> Bug ? o Split man pages. I know this is religious but the multiple sections are not convenient (for me) to use at all. In days of yore i could simply 'man zsh' and then search back and forward for what I needed to my little heart's content. Now I need to first remember the name of the 5 sections and work with them all. I suspect having separate sections is brilliant for the man page writer and a somewhat painful for the consumer. Perhaps the middle ground is to have each section include the next ? --> Not a bug. Thanks. gene cohler gene_cohler@sapience.com (options: % setopt autolist automenu autopushd autoremoveslash correct cshjunkieparen extendedglob hashcmds hashdirs hashlistall histignoredups ignoreeof interactive interactivecomments listtypes longlistjobs magicequalsubst monitor nobadpattern nobanghist nohup nonomatch notify pushdminus pushdsilent pushdtohome rmstarsilent shinstdin shwordsplit zle Gene gene@sapience.com