Re: Project: Friendly Interactive ZSHell available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/

[Guido van Steen <gvsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List, 

In my last mail the word "search widget" must have been a bit confusing. I 
actually meant "history-search widget". Fish (and Fizsh) allow a Matlab-like 
history search, which looks for SUBstrings of what you currently have on the 
command line. 


Best wishes, 

Guido 


----- Original Message ----
> From: Guido van Steen <gvsteen@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; zsh-users@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, January 8, 2011 23:52:36
> Subject: Project: Friendly Interactive ZSHell available at 
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/
> 
> Hi Julien, Peter and other ZSH users, 
> 
> Today I uploaded a "package" that  provides a "Fish-like" user interface to 
>ZSH. 
>
> Of course I used Julien's  excellent syntax highlighting code from 
> https://github.com/nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting for the syntax  
>highlighting 
>
> stuff. The package also contains a search widget, which I  partially cooked up 

> myself. It is based on an idea proposed by Peter in 2009 
> (http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2009/msg00818.html). For the rest I added some 
> scripts that take care of installing the files to the right location. 
> 
> 
> The project is called Fizsh, meaning Friendly Interactive ZSHell. It  is a 
> frontend to ZSH. Its purpose is to quickly provide users with an easy  looking 

> (Fish-like) environment, in which they can still execute  Bourn-syntax 
>snippets. 
>
> This will hopefully entice users relatively new to  ZSH, but it may also be of 

> interest to existing users, who like the Fish  user interface and who want to 
>use 
>
> it while being able to use Bourn-syntax  snippets at the same time. 
> 
> 
> I don't intend to fork Julien's syntax  highlighting code. For future versions 
>I 
>
> will just check-out the latest  version of his script. The search-widget will 
> have to be improved on the  sourceforge site. There are some obvious bugs in 
>it, 
>
> although I find it  quite workable. Anyone who has ideas, bug-reports, or 
> patches, please feel  free to mail them to me, or to the FiZsh mailing list at 

> sourceforge. 
> 
> 
> For those interested: the project is available at 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/. You can find a tarball there, and a 
> ".deb" archive. 
> 
> 
> Best wishes, 
> 
> Guido van Steen 
> 
> 
>