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

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Nov 27 23:09:44 WST 2003


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:55:38PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
| 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)".

Really?  Just fired up zsh temporarily ... scp euclid:p<TAB><TAB><TAB>
... nothing happens.  And it shouldn't even want a password to log in or
anything!  So make that bad second impressions too :-/

| > 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 :)

Hehehe...  knew there must have been a use for it ;-)

Cameron.

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