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Re: Announcement draft
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1855
- From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
- Subject: Re: Announcement draft
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 23:15:32 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <199607312111.XAA25395@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jul 31, 96 11:11:12 pm
>The latest version is zsh-3.0-pre5. It is much more stable than the last
>production release, zsh-2.5.0. More than a thousand bugs have been fixed
>since the release of zsh-2.5.0 (although none counted)
What do you mean by "none counted"? Should that be "no one counted"?
> * a very powerful command-line editor which can even be used to edit
> files
Binary files too, now. I think that's worth a mention.
> * very powerful filename globing which can do almost everything that
> find can do
Does someone want to implement find as a zsh script? It wouldn't
usually be practically useful, but it would be a great demonstration of
zsh's generality.
You didn't mention the enormous number of builtins.
>Additionally zsh is probably one of the most portable program available
>for Unix. It uses GNU autoconf and it builds out of the box on most
>systems.
Remove "probably".
If it's not in yet, some mention of the swapping of -1 and -C should be
added to the FAQ.
-zefram
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