From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14145 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 09:52:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 09:52:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 16388 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2001 09:52:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15528 Received: (qmail 16376 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 09:52:19 -0000 Message-ID: To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: Enhanced shell standard. summary In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:53:38 -0000." <1010730015338.ZM29147@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:51:38 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Bart Schaefer wrote: > } I don't want this preliminary round to drag on much longer since until > } the people from the other shell have commented it's a bit of a moot > } discussion. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Plural? > > I don't want it to drag on either, but because I think we need to send > off our list to DK et al. as soon as possible. Either the ball is not > rolling, or it's rolling where we can't see it. That was pretty much what I was saying. Here's the list I sent. I've simply removed stuff we can't really agree on ourselves. It turned out $LOGNAME is already mentioned in the single UNIX spec, so I deleted the line about USER/USERNAME/LOGNAME. basic ----- builtins: disown, builtin, suspend, pushd, whence, typeset, declare [[ ... ]] COLUMNS/LINES process substitution, at least <<(...) ${name/pattern/repl} {a,b} ** math power operator parameters: HOST or HOSTNAME SHLVL, RANDOM, SECONDS HOSTTYPE, OSTYPE, MACHTYPE cd takes care of symlinks, optionally resolves linkso -l option to shell for login some form of enhanced pattern matching, e.g. like ksh88. Use of $-expansion in prompts to be standard additions --------- emulate autoload -U, NO_ALIASES option <<<'word' functionality of precmd, chpwd, periodic, but with cleaner interface ${+foo} to check whether set coproc keyword (as |& is quite useful as a csh-like abbreviation) {0..10} => 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 glob qualifiers e.g. *(.) => all regular files ** recursive search version of enhanced shell spec available maybe via namespace (${.sh.ess_version}) functionality associated with disable/enable for builtins --- but name clash repeat loop (repeat 10; do print hello; done) standardisation of basic key bindings [need list of these] -L options to may builtins to list in form for input to shell [or make this defined behaviour for builtins --- will need option in zsh for compatibility] `=cmdname' expands to full path to command cmdname. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070 ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. **********************************************************************