Re: zsh is pretty good

2015-01-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:46:55AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
 I have always used bash as it is the default shell on Debian. However,
 I started using zsh  couple of days ago and find it pretty impressive.

Have a look at this:

http://grml.org/zsh/zsh-lovers.html

At the very end there's a list of links.

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zsh is pretty good

2015-01-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I have always used bash as it is the default shell on Debian. However,
I started using zsh  couple of days ago and find it pretty impressive.
Here is a simple feature which makes switching to zsh worth while.

When doing tab completion the choices disappear after the string is
completed! For example, say I have

rajulocal@hogwarts ~/x % ls file*
file10.txt  file11.txt  file12.txt  file13.txt  file1.txt  file2.txt
file3.csv  file4.csv  file5.tsv  file6.tsv  file7.txt  file9.txt

Now if I do
rajulocal@hogwarts ~/x % ls filetab
Completing files
file2.txtfile4.csvfile6.tsvfile7.txtfile10.txt
file12.txt
file3.csvfile5.tsvfile1.txtfile9.txtfile11.txt   file13.txt*

and enter 12.txt, I get

rajulocal@hogwarts ~/x % ls file12.txt
file12.txt

But the cool thing is that all those tab completion entries
disappeared afterwards. This makes the konsole screen look much
cleaner. I am using the default zshrc recommended by the debian
maintainers.

Also, I noticed that the popcon for zsh shows ~11,000 installations vs
~168,000 installations for bash. So it is not that popular among
debian users. But it could be due to the fact that zsh is not the
default shell on Debian. So I thought I'd share about my good
experience and save others from I wish I knew this years ago moment.
I, for sure, am having one at the moment.

raju
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Re: zsh is pretty good

2015-01-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:46 AM, kamaraju kusumanchi
raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
 Also, I noticed that the popcon for zsh shows ~11,000 installations vs
 ~168,000 installations for bash. So it is not that popular among
 debian users. But it could be due to the fact that zsh is not the
 default shell on Debian. So I thought I'd share about my good
 experience and save others from I wish I knew this years ago moment.
 I, for sure, am having one at the moment.


Forgot to add this in my initial email. Here are the relevant links to popcon.

zsh : https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=zsh
bash : https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=bash

thanks
raju
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