Feb 25 2006

ZShell

I’m thinking it might be time to jump ship, and look at alternate shells. I’m hearing a fair bit of noise about zsh from people who know what they’re doing… Any advice from people out there on this?

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Posted: February 25, 2006 at 18:00
Tagged: Mac

Comments

Zshell is neat, but bash is comfortable and pervasive. You can get much of zsh's benefit in bash by installing Bash Completion (<http://www.caliban.org/bash/>). it's in DarwinPorts, handily enough (bash-completion).

Posted by Alex Payne on February 28, 2006 at 11:08

The biggest problem with zsh is that its line editor does not handle utf-8 well; eg, if you type non-ASCII characters and then press backspace, you will end up deleting part of the prompt. If it wasn't for that, I would have switched long ago.

Posted by CL on March 5, 2006 at 20:49

Sorry, this conversation has finished.

This post is a bit old now, so I've closed the conversation. If you're keen to keep talking about it, please email me directly.