[comp.unix.shell...] zsh 2.0 available

[Paul Falstad]

Archive-name: unix/shell/zsh/1991-04-17
Archive-directory: princeton.edu:/pub/zsh/ [128.112.128.1]
Original-posting-by: pfalstad at phoenix.princeton.edu (Paul Falstad)
Original-subject: zsh 2.0 available
Reposted-by: emv at msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


zsh2.0 is now available from princeton.edu (128.112.128.1), as
"/pub/zsh/zsh2.00.00.tar.Z".  Features include:

- compiles with cc now - no ANSI compiler needed
- source is smaller than version 1 (yeah!)

from (t)csh:
- command line editing, bindkey, command/filename completion
- spelling correction
- history saving
- precmd, periodic, sched, echotc
- escape sequences in prompts
- login/logout watching
- autolist, fignore, histlit
- ! history substitution (can be turned off, though)
- arrays
- repeat, pushd, popd
- job control, brace expansion, aliases, globbing, etc.

from ksh:
- for, select, case, if, [[...]], ((...)), time [pipeline]
- command substitution, process substitution (no /dev/fd required)
- ${...%%...}, ${...##...}
- FPATH, MAILPATH, TMOUT
- alias name=value, cd old new, fc, getopts, print, set -A, set -o
- typeset -LRZfilrtux, trap, times, ulimit, type, whence
- autoload shell functions
- shell function local vars

from CWRU bash:
- ! pipeline, SHLVL, LINENO, OLDPWD, MAIL_WARNING
- history ignorespace, history ignoredups, autoresume
- $[...]
- #! interpretation for systems that don't have it

other stuff:
- improved globbing (better than v1)
- global aliases
- a line editor that adjusts the frequency of refreshes to the speed of your
  connection
- in your prompt, prints other people's directories like "~fubar" instead 
  of "/n/uffda/b/tmp_mnt/homes/students/fubar"
- vared (edit the value of a variable using the line editor)

--
              Paul Falstad  pfalstad at phoenix.princeton.edu
         And on the roads, too, vicious gangs of KEEP LEFT signs!
     If Princeton knew my opinions, they'd have expelled me long ago.

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princeton.edu
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found zsh ok
princeton.edu:/pub/zsh/