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- From: cedman@714-725-3165.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
- Subject: Re: zsh was Re: tcsh in the future - what should it be like?
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- Reply-To: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:56:48 GMT
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- Tony J Yeates writes
- > cedman@714-725-3165.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
- > > And most of all why would anyone bother ? To see how much
- > > effort, talent and good ideas have gone into tcsh is
- > > almost heart-rending. I've previously publicly asked
- > > for any good reason to continue to use csh descended
- > > shells instead of eg. zsh and been met only with
- > > resounding silence.
- >
- > tcsh has an excellent use interface (i.e. command line
- > editing), incorporating the best features of ksh, csh
- > and 4DOS IMHO. Its also backward compatible with tcsh (a
- > painless transition).
-
- That is the biggest problem of tcsh - it is compatible with csh which means
- that it has almost all the csh brain damage.
-
- > I've never used zsh, and haven't heard any rave-reviews
-
- Well, then you haven't been reading this newsgroup very long, I take it ? :-)
-
- > ... is this something special or just another free shell?
- > Whats the associated programming language like? (If its
- > not Bourne Shell, ksh, REXX, perl or csh compatible -
- > forget it, there are too many shell language
- > alternatives already!)
-
- Combines the best of all imaginable worlds by having almost all the interactive
- features of tcsh (only the most fancy custom command line completion stuff
- introduced in the most recent tcsh is not in zsh yet) in addition to many
- useful ones of its own. But it is based on sh/ksh, not csh which means that it
- is can also be used for programming tasks.
-
- Carl Edman
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