how to contribute

how to contribute

[Dominik Vogt]

Hi folks,

I have written a zsh script that I'd be willing to contribute to
the good cause. It's some kind of universal phone database that
can store, query and print all kinds of user definable fields
and comments. The data is stored in the script itself, so if
you are on a platform where it does not run for some reason
(e.g. windows) you can still use it as a text file. The script
relief only on two external commands: sed and grep (something
should be hacked in configure to make the scipt cope with
different versions of sed that expect '\n' vs. a quoted 
newline when replacing).

If someone is interested in the script I can post it. The
reson why I'm asking first it that the predefined fields
in the script are in German. I would translate it if needed.

(Please CC me, I'm not on the list.)

Bye

Dominik ^_^

-- 
Dominik Vogt, Hewlett-Packard GmbH, Dept. BVS
Herrenberger Str.130, 71034 Boeblingen, Germany
phone: 07031/14-4596, fax: 07031/14-3883, dominik_vogt@hp.com

Re: how to contribute

[Peter Stephenson]

Dominik Vogt wrote:
> I have written a zsh script that I'd be willing to contribute to
> the good cause.

There's a collection of scripts at the zsh web site,
http://sunsite.auc.dk/zsh/, and we're always willing to add more.  If you
send it, we can add it.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy

Re: how to contribute

[Oliver Kiddle]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> There's a collection of scripts at the zsh web site,
> http://sunsite.auc.dk/zsh/, and we're always willing to add more.  If you
> send it, we can add it.

I've just had a look through the pages and noticed a couple of broken
links:

On the contributed compctl's page, the link to Peter's compctls at
Swansea is broken. When 3.1.6 is released, it might be a good idea to
also add the 3.1.6 compctl-examples as I think it has had a few changes
(some of which could possibly go in 3.0.6 - I'll look into dong a patch
if that would be of use).

The comparison of UNIX shells on the Introduction page seems to be
broken. It warns that the connection may be refused but I get a 404
error so I suppose it isn't there anymore.

It would also be useful to add a link to the ssh workshop which someone
mentioned on this list a couple of months ago
(http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/zsh/toc.html).

Oliver Kiddle

Re: how to contribute

[Peter Stephenson]

Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> On the contributed compctl's page, the link to Peter's compctls at
> Swansea is broken.
> 
> The comparison of UNIX shells on the Introduction page seems to be
> broken.
> 
> It would also be useful to add a link to the ssh workshop which someone
> mentioned on this list a couple of months ago
> (http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/zsh/toc.html).

OK, I've fixed these.

> When 3.1.6 is released, it might be a good idea to
> also add the 3.1.6 compctl-examples as I think it has had a few changes
> (some of which could possibly go in 3.0.6 - I'll look into dong a patch
> if that would be of use).

Well, compctl isn't really the way to go for new users in 3.1.6.  But
there'll still be plenty of people using it.  It could do with something a
bit more ordered and commented, if anybody had any time.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy