edd12321/zrc

The Zrc UNIX shell and scripting language.

zrc's Issues

make corebuf fails

1. The latest commit still has no instructions on how to build.
2. In another bug tracker issue, the maintainer instructs: "Run make && make corebuf then sudo make install"
   2b. make is intuitive, make corebuf is not. What is the purpose of it?
3. In any case, it doesn't work for me.

$ make corebuf
cd corebuf; \
	./build.zrc
/usr/bin/env: ‘zrc’: No such file or directory
Makefile:24: recipe for target 'corebuf' failed
make: *** [corebuf] Error 127

Thank you for your attention again.

Problems with GNU screen

When I test zrc on the interactive command line, I often have these problems:

• Backspace takes the cursor back past the prompt, overwriting it.
• Pasting text is messy in multiple ways.
• Pressing the UP arrow key causes the past command lines to be printed close to the prompt, with no space separating it as in the normal prompt.

The problem seems to be related to GNU screen. I use the Fish shell in GNU screen and my terminal application is stjerm, which is almost extinct nowadays. But I don't think stjerm is to blame. The same problem is not reproducible on sakura (another terminal application), until I start a GNU screen session in sakura. Then the problems begin again.

I never had any problem with GNU screen and Fish or Bash, so I am guessing Zrc and screen don't get along too well. It's hard to find anyone who still uses stjerm, but GNU screen is very popular so it's probably a good idea to check that. Maybe tmux too, but I never used it so I don't know if it has issues with Zrc (or any other shell for that matter).

Feature request: keyboard shortcuts

I don't see keyboard shortcuts in your TODO list so I thought I might as well ask for it. I really miss:

• Ctrl+l: clear
• Home/Ctrl+a: jump to beginning of line
• End/Ctrl+e: jump to end of line
• Alt+up: cd ..
• Alt+left: cd -

Among others.

By the way, I use Linux but I really like the CHM format for studying so I made myself one out of your man pages. It is attached. Feel free to distribute it if you like.

Here: zrc.chm.zip

Please don't count on me to update it often. It involves a lot of editing and Microsoft makes the building procedure considerably more difficult than it had to be.

Also I won't be around here for long. Github will soon enforce two-factor authentication and I will not comply because it requires a phone number or a phone application (which of course collects personal data) and I find that invasive and abusive. So I may not be able to log in and comment anymore.

Thank you for your attention.

Feature request: unknown function

I would love to have an "unknown" function like the one in Tcl. No more, no less. Just a "port" to Zrc with the same design and behavior.

Not extremely important or urgent, I just thought I should ask while I still can log in to Github. :-\

Thank you.

Strange pipe behavior

Here is what happens when we try to run the following command:
ls > file | wc
Expected result:
0 0 0
Actual result:
<non-zero> <non-zero> <non-zero>

@ {ls > file} | wc
yields the correct result we should expect...

I know why this happens, but it's kinda hard to fix. I hope I can do it this week.

How to build?

How is this supposed to build? There are no instructions anywhere.

Installation/access to man pages

Is there a simple way of installing the documentation?

I copied the zrc.1 file from the doc directory to /usr/share/man/man1/ (make install didn't do that, neither did it copy the binary to /usr/local/bin or any other place in my PATH) and it works, I can read the manual with 'man zrc' like any other command.

What about all the other pages? I foresee conflicts. For example, in man zrc:

string [OPTION]
              Work with text strings. See `man string` for more info.

But there is a string command already and it has its own man page.

Actually, I get two very different man pages when I call 'man string' from my usual shell and from a zrc shell session. I have no idea why. Neither is the zrc string command because I didn't install it. I just copied zrc.1 over.

How do you suggest we deal with it?