in message <20100606182148.gb28...@guilt.hydra>,
wrote Chad Perrin thusly...
...
> > > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of
> > > > the good ideas from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be
> > > > copyfree rather than copyleft.
...
> I'm curious about why you prefer zsh for an interactive shell.
> What zsh features would you miss if you used tcsh instead (what
> I've been using)?
>
> I'm always willing to be convinced to try something better.
I cannot say about the tcsh features.
I switched from bash to zsh mainly for excellent vi-mode editing
support, more so over multiple lines. ksh & bash were horrible in
that respect.
Recently I have found that regular expression like [a-d] (instead of
{a,b,c,d}) in file name generation work as expected. zsh has more
ways to help file name generation which I have not looked into yet.
And of course, as stated earlier, compatibility between a bourne
shell script & an interactive shell helps immensely while
developing|debugging a script.
- parv
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