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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

2 little questions.
where do i set this as my default shell? /etc/passwd ?!?
and, i've seen this as a comment in a .zshrc of a developer, why shouldn't i use zsh for root?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

blue.sca wrote:
2 little questions.
where do i set this as my default shell? /etc/passwd ?!?
and, i've seen this as a comment in a .zshrc of a developer, why shouldn't i use zsh for root?


You can use the usermod command as root to change a user's shell. Refer to the man page.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raoul, thanks for posting a link to your config. I'm using zsh now and I'm a very happy kitty.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The usermod command for that would be as follows.

Code:
usermod -s /bin/zsh username


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried zsh a while back, and am now back trying it again. I'm going to hack away at some of those posted zshrc files and see what I come up with :-)

Thanks for renewing my interest in this great shell, and posting some very nice rc files!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm trying to customize my prompt/rprompt, and I can't seem to figure out how to get colors?
Could someone just give me an example of how to get a color, lets say make this red:
RPROMPT="[%T]"
I've been trying a few things, but with no avail, maybe someone can help?

EDIT: Nevermind :wink: I got it now, This is great


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I get my machine finally up I'll give it a spin. Based on what I'm reading here it might be something that suits me.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For red:

RPROMPT="[%{$fg_bold[red]%}%T%{$reset_color%}]"

The %{ %} around the coloring statements apparently tells the line reader to ignore it, so that it can correctly display lines when you edit them (which might have been a problem I had back in bash, where long lines would get garbled when I edited them).

I think there's also $fg[...] $bg[...] and $bg_bold[...].

I must say, this is much nicer than in bash, where I had to write out all the ASCII escape code variables for myself. :) I think I'm converted.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think zsh looks very cool but the advanced tab auto complete stuff looks a little different. I'll try it! :)
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unfortunately when i run zsh from a bash prompt it cant find all kinds of modules, i copied the zshrc to ~/.zshrc

am i stupid?
what should i do about this?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NME wrote:
Unfortunately when i run zsh from a bash prompt it cant find all kinds of modules, i copied the zshrc to ~/.zshrc

am i stupid?
what should i do about this?


You copied /usr/share/doc/zsh-4.2.0-r1/StartupFiles/zshrc.gz to ~/.zshrc?
Open up your ~/.zshrc file and comment out these lines(excluding the top line, since its already commented out, just there to help you find it):
Code:

# Autoload zsh modules when they are referenced
zmodload -a zsh/stat stat
zmodload -a zsh/zpty zpty
zmodload -a zsh/zprof zprof
zmodload -ap zsh/mapfile mapfile

That should probably do it, I hope.
Technically you weren't really supposed to do that without editing it, as in the file it says:
# THIS FILE IS NOT INTENDED TO BE USED AS /etc/zshrc, NOR WITHOUT EDITING
Also I see this, that you might not have removed:
return 0 # Remove this line after editing this file as appropriate

Good luck :wink:
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

(imo) nice zsh prompt 'tutorial' :arrow: here :)
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey iv been using zsh because of this thread, and im loving it

a question:
bindkey '^X^H' run-help
that was an example keybinding in a guide..

is this Control-X, Control-H, emacs-style?

becuase it doesnt seem to be working...
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do have a question about zsh. I still haven't been able to get my del, home, or end keys to work. I have this in my .zshrc but it doesn't do anything:

Code:
case $TERM in (xterm*|aterm|rxvt)
   bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line
   bindkey "\e[2~" transpose-words
   bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char
   bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line ;;
esac


I know those are the right keys too. Anyone have a fix for this behaviour?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:

hey iv been using zsh because of this thread, and im loving it

a question:
bindkey '^X^H' run-help
that was an example keybinding in a guide..

is this Control-X, Control-H, emacs-style?

becuase it doesnt seem to be working...


Are you sure it's ^X^H ? On my system it's ^]H (Escape-H). You can execute bindkeys to see the list of keys binding.

Quote:

I do have a question about zsh. I still haven't been able to get my del, home, or end keys to work. I have this in my .zshrc but it doesn't do anything:

Code:
case $TERM in (xterm*|aterm|rxvt)
bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line
bindkey "\e[2~" transpose-words
bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char
bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line ;;
esac

I know those are the right keys too. Anyone have a fix for this behaviour


Well, are you sure Home is '\e[1~' ? The best way to check the code for Home is to do C-v and then press Home to see the correct code. On my machine, Home is mapped to "^[[H", and using bindkey "^[[H" beginning-of-line works while bindkey '\e[1~' doesn't. And, do you really need the case statement ? I may not get it, but I don't think you will need to use case in this situation.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another convert. You didn't mention this in your original post, but here's something I picked up at your website that I thought was really cool:

Code:

Say I type in cd /u/s/z/4(tab), ZSH will expand those letters into a full blown path (/usr/share/zsh/4.2.0 in this case). This comes in very very handy, and, in my opinion, it is quicker than using tab-completition on full directory names each time, in the way you are used to if you use Bash's directory tabbing.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks minhtang

another question, is there a way to get the history program working with zsh?

it seems to only get the last 15 or so items, even thought the .zhistory file has alot more...
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

another question :)

Is anyone using zsh for their root shell? My paths don't get set correctly and dircolors complains about not having the SHELL variable set. I can set the shell variable in my .zshrc as a workaround but I don't know what paths I should set for root.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:00 pm    Post subject: awsom! Reply with quote

Zsh is amazing, the autocomplete is absolutely incredible
and a smart autocomplete, if i do "cd<tab>" it will only show me directories (or symlinks to directories)

I added a function to .zshrc (found something similiar to it on the net) that allows me to copy/paste using X's clipboard (either selection or clipboard buffers, i use the xclip program for it):

Code:


copy-to-clipboard ()
{
  if [ -n "$LBUFFER$RBUFFER" ]; then
    echo $LBUFFER$RBUFFER | xclip -i
  fi
}

paste-from-clipboard ()
{
  CLIPOUT=`xclip -o`
  BUFFER=$LBUFFER$CLIPOUT$RBUFFER
}

zle -N paste-from-clipboard paste-from-clipboard
zle -N copy-to-clipboard copy-to-clipboard
bindkey "^V" paste-from-clipboard
bindkey "^Y" copy-to-clipboard



This is very comfortable, since when the mouse is out of the terminal window area, shift+insert doesn't work (i'm a keyboard freak).
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, another question/problem iv had since I switched to Z

i have a script for my music player:

in which a line is this:
rxvt -bg black -fg white -e bash -c "mpc listall|grep --colour=always $1|less"
it opens a term, which has a less of a grepped list
I really want it to be in colour, and it was fine before, but now when I run it it shows up like this:
Weezer/Weezer_-_In_The_GaESC[01;31mrageESC[00m.mp3
if i was searching for 'rage'

i (as root) used usermod to switch back to bash, relogged in, and it worked fine.
And ideas why having zsh as my default screws with the colours for grep?


EDIT : the friendly guys at #zsh helped me out
i needed to add the -r flag to less
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

allucid wrote:
another question :)

Is anyone using zsh for their root shell? My paths don't get set correctly and dircolors complains about not having the SHELL variable set. I can set the shell variable in my .zshrc as a workaround but I don't know what paths I should set for root.

nevermind, i forgot to pull some stuff out of /etc/profile
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So switching your root shell to zsh shouldn't cause any problems? I remember reading on a Solaris forum (I think) you should never switch root's shell. I just want to make sure it's cool before hosing my system.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dru wrote:
So switching your root shell to zsh shouldn't cause any problems? I remember reading on a Solaris forum (I think) you should never switch root's shell. I just want to make sure it's cool before hosing my system.


I changed my root's shell to zsh 2+ days ago, and I've had no problems, so you should be alright :D
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I must admit, I really like zsh and am using it for my primary user's shell (but not for root). Though there isn't much modified, here is my .zshrc:

http://linux.monkzone.net/monkey.zshrc

(The main linux.monkzone.net is outdated, I'm gonna fix it up soon and make it a general linux page with all my info and stuff)

I also want to know if someone could perhaps get genlop auto completion working... Here's the bash completion script that comes with it for reference:

http://linux.monkzone.net/genlop

Thanks! :)
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

minhtang wrote:
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hey iv been using zsh because of this thread, and im loving it

a question:
bindkey '^X^H' run-help
that was an example keybinding in a guide..

is this Control-X, Control-H, emacs-style?

becuase it doesnt seem to be working...


Are you sure it's ^X^H ? On my system it's ^]H (Escape-H). You can execute bindkeys to see the list of keys binding.

Quote:


As for I do have a question about zsh. I still haven't been able to get my del, home, or end keys to work. I have this in my .zshrc but it doesn't do anything:

Code:
case $TERM in (xterm*|aterm|rxvt)
bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line
bindkey "\e[2~" transpose-words
bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char
bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line ;;
esac

I know those are the right keys too. Anyone have a fix for this behaviour


Well, are you sure Home is '\e[1~' ? The best way to check the code for Home is to do C-v and then press Home to see the correct code. On my machine, Home is mapped to "^[[H", and using bindkey "^[[H" beginning-of-line works while bindkey '\e[1~' doesn't. And, do you really need the case statement ? I may not get it, but I don't think you will need to use case in this situation.


To be honest I haven't messed with the .zshrc file in a long time. Doing what you said, I end up with completely different character than you said and than what I had in the file. I just remember doing that before and those were the characters that came up. It may have to do with a different keyboard layout than I was using before. I rebuilt my system recently I may have picked different options. As for the case statement, I think it was there from the .zshrc that I started from and I just never changed it.

Well it's time to see if these new characters work.
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