ZSH users (lovers?) thread

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geniux · Post by **geniux** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:41 am

geniux wrote:I've seen that alot of you got the % after the username, but I've still got the $. Anyone know how to change this, would be nice to show that I have zsh

Oops, sorry, I solved it myself. I just did a real reboot and now it's just how I want it

KozmoNaut · Post by **KozmoNaut** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:20 pm

Now that I've begun using Konsole instead of plain ol' Xterm, shift+tab is broken again for autocompletion. I can't even ctrl+v to see the keycode

babilen · Post by **babilen** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:36 pm

Hi All,

i used zsh for quite a long time now, and have a highly customised, though well documented .zshrc which is inspired by a lot others i found on the net.

You can find it here. Hope some of you find it useful... I marked all the lines you should edit with "#EDIT !!!"

I had a cool feature enabled some months ago in zsh command history cycling with the arrow keys but deleted it unintentianlly.... when i entered something like

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ls <arrow-key-up>

zsh just cycled through all the commands in my history which started with ls.... Anybody knows how to re-enable it???

---
babilen

petrjanda · Post by **petrjanda** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:31 am

The SystemRescue CD uses zsh as the default shell. One function that I noticed is that if I mistype a command for example "grpe" it will ask me to change it to "grep". How do i go about setting this up?

joeljkp · Post by **joeljkp** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:18 am

I've heard rumors that zsh isn't POSIX compliant. Is this true? Does it cause problems?

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:30 pm

ZSH is POSIX 1003.2 compliant, as well as fully bourne-compatible.

oberyno · Post by **oberyno** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:17 am

KozmoNaut wrote:Now that I've begun using Konsole instead of plain ol' Xterm, shift+tab is broken again for autocompletion. I can't even ctrl+v to see the keycode

I had a similar problem with unicode-rxvt. Adding

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+ I Test (Init) Exec xmodmap -e 'keysym Tab = Tab'

to my .fvwm2rc allows shift + tab to work for me. YMMV.

babilen wrote:I had a cool feature enabled some months ago in zsh command history cycling with the arrow keys but deleted it unintentianlly.... when i entered something like
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ls <arrow-key-up>

zsh just cycled through all the commands in my history which started with ls.... Anybody knows how to re-enable it???

This should do the trick:

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bindkey "^[[A"  history-search-backward
bindkey "^[[B"  history-search-forward

Personally, I prefer having PgUp and PgDn scroll through specific commands. Here's the bindings for that:

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bindkey "\e[5~" history-search-backward
bindkey "\e[6~" history-search-forward

petrjanda wrote:The SystemRescue CD uses zsh as the default shell. One function that I noticed is that if I mistype a command for example "grpe" it will ask me to change it to "grep". How do i go about setting this up?

It would be useful if you had the .zshrc from the cd if you want exactly the same functionality. For example, the following allows one error per word and will not add possible completions that have extra characters:

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zstyle ':completion:::::' completer _complete _correct
zstyle ':completion:*:correct:::' max-errors 1

With that, grpe is corrected to grep with <tab> on my computer.
Alternatively, _approximate could be used.

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zstyle ':completion:::::' completer _complete _approximate
zstyle -e ':completion:*:approximate:::' max-errors \
    'reply=( $(( ($#PREFIX+$#SUFFIX)/4 )) numeric )'

which would produce something like this after a <tab>:

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------------------------------------->>   corrections                          
grep     grep-changelog     grep-changelog-22.0.0     grepseti   
------------------------------------->>   original                             
grpe

Also the max-errors line allows 1 error for every 4 characters typed.

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:45 pm

Well, the Z Shell book has just been released:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

If you're interested in really mastering this shell (and believe me, there's a hell of a lot to master) it's a good buy. One for the Christmas list?

justanothergentoofanatic · Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:20 am

bah humbug.

If bash was good enough for my mama, then it's good enough for me.

-Mike

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:36 am

If a Fiat Punto was good enough for your mother, would you refuse a Porsche?

Wi1d · Post by **Wi1d** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 2:05 pm

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that auto completion has stopped working for "emerge''. It stopped working for me like maybe a week ago but everything else seems fine. I've checked out '*/functions/Completion' thinking that I might find a hint to what the problem might be but found nothing. Suggestions anyone?

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:20 pm

It stopped working for me with zsh-4.2.1-r1.

You need to emerge app-shells/zsh-completion.

oberyno · Post by **oberyno** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:20 pm

If anyone's interested, I made a somewhat large patch to the latest emerge completion. patch

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cd /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
cat /path/to/_portage_2004-11-12.patch | patch

It uses --argument for everything, so don't expect emerge sync<tab> to complete anything. The advantage is that arguments can be completed in whatever order. emerge --ask -d --unmerge<tab> will complete only installed packages. Pretty much every action that can accept arguments now has arguments to complete(--depclean, --search, --help,...). All the new portage 2.0.51 options are in as well.

Other than that, it's mostly small fixes/tweaks. Overlay support is everywhere. Packages and profiles(world system) no longer can be completed at the same time. I removed the ebuild version cache I put in earlier in favor of matching against what's already been typed. So emerge \=<tab> only completes categories, but add a letter and it'll complete all packages that starts with that letter.

Anyway, if no one has any problems with it, I'll send it to bugzilla in several days.
Edit: bug #71532

Wi1d · Post by **Wi1d** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:54 pm

Thanks for both responces. It works again.

justanothergentoofanatic · Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:00 am

slarti` wrote:If a Fiat Punto was good enough for your mother, would you refuse a Porsche?

Natural leather upholstery chafes at pantyhose. Its tendancy to scald unprotected flesh is incompatible with many skirts and dresses.

QED.

-Mike

gentoo_lan · Post by **gentoo_lan** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:47 am

If bash was good enough for my mama, then it's good enough for me.

Your mama hasn't tried Zsh. She would be quite impressed I think.

MrNugget · Post by **MrNugget** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:50 pm

Hello ZSH-lovers,

i want to try out ZSH (i'm using it on a server, but never really got into it),
so i downloaded babilen's .zshrc and now i'm using it.
But the dircolors are not working and i don't know any really cool
features of the ZSH. So maybe you can show me some tricks&tipps,
or things i must have seen, hehe. And is there a site which teaches how
to use the advantages of the ZSH?

Regards,
MrNugget

oberyno · Post by **oberyno** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:20 pm

MrNugget wrote:Hello ZSH-lovers,

i want to try out ZSH (i'm using it on a server, but never really got into it),
so i downloaded babilen's .zshrc and now i'm using it.
But the dircolors are not working and i don't know any really cool
features of the ZSH. So maybe you can show me some tricks&tipps,
or things i must have seen, hehe. And is there a site which teaches how
to use the advantages of the ZSH?

Regards,
MrNugget

You might want to try http://www.michael-prokop.at/computer/tools_zsh_en.html. Pretty much everything zsh related can be found from that site.

About the dircolors issue, you need to comment setopt NO_aliases in babilen's zshrc. That should make ls behave.

martinbishop · Post by **martinbishop** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:34 pm

Has that "vim mode" bug been fixed? or whatever the problem was that made it replace text and get all screwed up

pjj · Post by **pjj** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 5:19 pm

My shell looks different when I am in X how do I change this? (I use the gentoo promt theme). The config I use is the one babilen posted.

It now looks like this : http://img113.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img113&image=promt.png

Useful Idiot · Post by **Useful Idiot** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:40 pm

You can get a Gentooish(with % instead of $) prompt by putting this in your /etc/zsh/zshenv*:

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export red=$'%{\e[1;31m%}'
export green=$'%{\e[1;32m%}'
export blue=$'%{\e[1;34m%}'
export default=$'%{\e[0m%}'

if [[ $- = *i* ]]
then
	if [[ "$USER" = root ]] 
	then
		export PROMPT="${red}%m ${blue}%.%#${default} "
	else
		export PROMPT="${green}%n@%m ${blue}%.%#${default} "
	fi
fi

* or whatever you might be using as your config file

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:48 pm

martinbishop wrote:Has that "vim mode" bug been fixed? or whatever the problem was that made it replace text and get all screwed up

it's not a bug, but if you want emacs-style keybindings, put bindkey -e in your zshrc.

rawoul · Post by **rawoul** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:49 pm

or you can do

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autoload prompinit
promptinit
prompt_gentoo_setup

pjj · Post by **pjj** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:52 pm

Yeah I know but It works for me only when I am NOT in X. When in X it looks like what I have posted.

BTW : zsh rocks

racoontje · Post by **racoontje** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:16 pm

Mabye we should change the standard shell from bash to zsh? A lot of people prefer it.