zsh and screen (was: Re: [plug] console scroll)

[Bernard Blackham]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:03:45PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I've noticed that a few Plug/UCC types (hi Bernard :-P) use and
> advocate zsh.  I've only tried it for a short while, and was rather
> upset that the Home/End keys did quirky things (playing around with it
> just now, hitting "home" plunged it into vi keybindings mode, and while

Sounds like one of those cases of bad first impressions... things
just worked for me. I was stoked to find out that things like
completion over ssh for scp "just worked(tm)".

> I use vi for all my editing, I don't want to have to fiddle with a modal
> editor in my shell!); 

But then you hear people cursing and muttering when they try and
"borrow" your shell :)

> C-a/C-e didn't behave as expected either.  Can
> this be fixed easily?  And for that matter, why was this considered to
> be sensible default behaviour?
> 
> For now, I'm sticking with bash :-)

Well there is a bash-compatibility mode that makes it act more
bash-like ... but why would you want to cripple a shell like that? :)

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>
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