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wish list for zsh
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1260
- From: Francois-Rene Rideau <rideau@xxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (ZSH workers)
- Subject: wish list for zsh
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:46:47 +0200 (MET DST)
- Reply-to: <rideau@xxxxxx>
Dear ZSH workers,
Here is a wish list for an even better zsh (my, is it possible?):
* There are still programs that won't work if $SHELL == zsh
when spawning system commands.
ncftp and kermit now work fine;
I don't know if less will work now (didn't as of 2.6beta9),
for I compiled it so it would use of /bin/sh instead of $SHELL.
elm still doesn't work.
I hate it to have a shell function include SHELL=/bin/sh
before to launch applications;
I hate it even more when I have to write an external script for that,
because the application must be launched from an intermediate application
as a standalone command name.
* to solve much of the problems, shouldn't -c imply -f ?
* I don't know if it's a feature or a bug, but
mycommand =(foo)
won't work as expected if mycommand was defined as
mycommand () {
command1
command2 $@
command3
}
because the temporary file will get deleted after command1.
Shouldn't the temporary file be deleted only afterwards ?
* It would be nice if zsh had a function to return a temporary file name
for use in scripts.
* The ability to *dynamically* tie an array to a colon-separated list,
like you did for $path et al, would be good.
For instance, I have INFOPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
and CLEANPATH variables, and some other programs I will install
might have their own such variables.
NB: I'm not subscribed to the list, but would appreciate a personal
answer about your implementing or not those features.
Anyway, thanks for this wonderful shell!
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