Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:39:36PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:32:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Lets recap: >> 1) X posts a message about a non-cygwin topic > >Sorry, but X postings are off-topic for this list. > >(ducks) Heh. Probably the funniest

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:32:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Lets recap: > 1) X posts a message about a non-cygwin topic Sorry, but X postings are off-topic for this list. (ducks) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:18:41PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >I was going to simply let this thread die, until you started this bit >about supermarkets, which conveys, to me, that in general people aren't >welcome to ask non-topic questions See: http://cygwin.com/lists.html >on this list. Le

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:27:57PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: > >On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:39:18PM +, zzapper wrote: > >> >A previous poster, indicated that this group is probably not t

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:27:57PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: >On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:39:18PM +, zzapper wrote: >> >A previous poster, indicated that this group is probably not the best >> >place for such discussions, which is of course

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:39:18PM +, zzapper wrote: > >A previous poster, indicated that this group is probably not the best > >place for such discussions, which is of course correct, but that said > >there must be a lot of Unix Newbies here. (

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:39:18PM +, zzapper wrote: >A previous poster, indicated that this group is probably not the best >place for such discussions, which is of course correct, but that said >there must be a lot of Unix Newbies here. (I'm a Unix oldbie, but that >means I know old Unix, rath

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread zzapper
? > >While somethings are distinctly different between bash and zsh, and lot >of bash scripts will run under zsh. But, why not use both? I am an >advocate for zsh, being the Cygwin maintainer and all, but I've always >felt that you should use the right tool for the right job. Choice of >shell is

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, zzapper wrote: > Hi > If one chooses to use zsh rather than bash, do you have to rewrite all > your scripts?. How steep is the learning curve?? While somethings are distinctly different between bash and zsh, and lot of bash scripts will run under zsh. But, why not use both?

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:31:51PM +, zzapper wrote: >If one chooses to use zsh rather than bash, do you have to rewrite all >your scripts?. How steep is the learning curve?? http://www.zsh.org/ should have a wealth of information on this. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than