[ale] Zsh++, and global substitutions (Re: [ale] i hate csh)

[Fletch]

>>>>> "hirsch" == hirsch  <hirsch at zapmedia.com> writes:

[...]

    hirsch> Another option might be zsh.  IIRC, it can be made fairly
    hirsch> csh compatible with the I_AM_A_CSH_WEENIE environment
    hirsch> variable.  I kid you not, that is it's name.  :-)

<zsh-evangelism>Zsh rules.</zsh-evangelism>


        The Z shell gives you a korn-y shell with all of the csh
history editing goodness.  And the programmable completion makes it so
that you can get a whole lot of things typed with just a couple of TAB
hits.


        Oh, and someone had mentioned doing a global substitution on a
command line (a la ^a^b, but for all occurances of a).  In zsh and csh
(and I think bash also may allow it) you can use the :gs/// modifier
on a history element (!!, !123, !-4, !?foo).  So


        !!:gs/foo/bar/


        would run the previous command, changing every `foo' to `bar',
while


        !?mv:gs/.mp3/.ogg/


        would run the last command containing mv replacing `.mp3' with
`.ogg'.


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