A User's Guide to the Z-Shell
Peter Stephenson
2003/03/23
Table of Contents
- 2.1.1: What is a login shell? Simple tests
- 2.4.1: Arrays
- 2.5.1: Compatibility options:
SH_WORD_SPLIT and others
- 2.5.2: Options for csh junkies
- 2.5.3: The history mechanism: types of history
- 2.5.4: Setting up history
- 2.5.5: History options
- 2.5.6: Prompts
- 2.5.7: Named directories
- 2.5.8: `Go faster' options for power users
- 2.5.9: aliases
- 2.5.10: Environment variables
- 2.5.11: Path
- 2.5.12: Mail
- 2.5.13: Other path-like things
- 2.5.14: Version-specific things
- 2.5.15: Everything else
- 3.2.1: Builtins for printing
- 3.2.2: Other builtins just for speed
- 3.2.3: Builtins which change the shell's state
- 3.2.4: cd and friends
- 3.2.5: Command control and information commands
- 3.2.6: Parameter control
- 3.2.7: History control commands
- 3.2.8: Job control and process control
- 3.2.9: Terminals, users, etc.
- 3.2.10: Syntactic oddments
- 3.2.11: More precommand modifiers:
exec, noglob
- 3.2.12: Testing things
- 3.2.13: Handling options to functions and scripts
- 3.2.14: Random file control things
- 3.2.15: Don't watch this space, watch some other
- 3.2.16: And also
- 3.3.1: Loading functions
- 3.3.2: Function parameters
- 3.3.3: Compiling functions
- 3.6.1: History expansion
- 3.6.2: Alias expansion
- 3.6.3: Process, parameter, command, arithmetic and brace expansion
- 3.6.4: Filename Expansion
- 3.6.5: Filename Generation
- 3.7.1: Clobber
- 3.7.2: File descriptors
- 3.7.3: Appending, here documents, here strings, read write
- 3.7.4: Clever tricks: exec and other file descriptors
- 3.7.5: Multios
- 3.8.1: Logical command connectors
- 3.8.2: Structures
- 3.8.3: Subshells and current shell constructs
- 3.8.4: Subshells and current shells
- 3.9.1: Differences in detail
- 3.9.2: Making your own scripts and functions portable
- 4.1.1: The simple facts
- 4.1.2: Vi mode
- 4.2.1: Moving
- 4.2.2: Deleting
- 4.2.3: More deletion
- 4.3.1: Options controlling zle
- 4.3.2: The minibuffer and extended commands
- 4.3.3: Prefix (digit) arguments
- 4.3.4: Words, regions and marks
- 4.3.5: Regions and marks
- 4.4.1: Moving through the history
- 4.4.2: Searching through the history
- 4.4.3: Extracting words from the history
- 4.5.1: Simple key bindings
- 4.5.2: Removing key bindings
- 4.5.3: Function keys and so on
- 4.5.4: Binding strings instead of commands
- 4.5.5: Keymaps
- 4.6.1: Multi-line editing
- 4.6.2: The builtin vared and the function zed
- 4.6.3: The buffer stack
- 4.7.1: Widgets
- 4.7.2: Executing other widgets
- 4.7.3: Some special builtin widgets and their uses
- 4.7.4: Special parameters: normal text
- 4.7.5: Other special parameters
- 4.7.6: Reading keys and using the minibuffer
- 4.7.7: Examples
- 5.1.1: Backslashes
- 5.1.2: Single quotes
- 5.1.3: POSIX quotes
- 5.1.4: Double quotes
- 5.1.5: Backquotes
- 5.4.1: Using arrays
- 5.4.2: Using associative arrays
- 5.4.3: Substituted substitutions, top- and tailing, etc.
- 5.4.4: Flags for options: splitting and joining
- 5.4.5: Flags for options:
GLOB_SUBST and RC_EXPAND_PARAM
- 5.4.6: Yet more parameter flags
- 5.4.7: A couple of parameter substitution tricks
- 5.4.8: Nested parameter substitutions
- 5.6.1: Entering and outputting bases
- 5.6.2: Parameter typing
- 5.9.1: Comparing patterns and regular expressions
- 5.9.2: Standard features
- 5.9.3: Extensions usually available
- 5.9.4: Extensions requiring
EXTENDED_GLOB
- 5.9.5: Recursive globbing
- 5.9.6: Glob qualifiers
- 5.9.7: Globbing flags: alter the behaviour of matches
- 5.9.8: The function
zmv
- 6.2.1: Ambiguous completions
- 6.2.2:
ALWAYS_LAST_PROMPT
- 6.2.3: Menu completion and menu selection
- 6.2.4: Other ways of changing completion behaviour
- 6.2.5: Changing the way completions are displayed
- 6.4.1: Contexts
- 6.4.2: Tags
- 6.5.1: Specifying completers and their options
- 6.5.2: Changing the format of listings: groups etc.
- 6.5.3: Styles affecting particular completions
- 6.6.1:
_complete_help
- 6.6.2:
_correct_word, _correct_filename, _expand_word
- 6.6.3:
_history_complete_word
- 6.6.4:
_most_recent_file
- 6.6.5:
_next_tags
- 6.6.6:
_bash_completions
- 6.6.7:
_read_comp
- 6.6.8:
_generic
- 6.6.9:
predict-on, incremental-complete-word
- 6.7.1: Case-insensitive matching
- 6.7.2: Matching option names
- 6.7.3: Partial word completion
- 6.7.4: Substring completion
- 6.7.5: Partial words with capitals
- 6.7.6: Final notes
- 6.8.1: The dispatcher
- 6.8.2: Subcommand completion:
_arguments
- 6.8.3: Completing particular argument types
- 6.8.4: The rest
- 6.9.1: Loading completion functions:
compdef
- 6.9.2: Adding a set of completions:
compadd
- 6.9.3: Functions for generating filenames, etc.
- 6.9.4: The
zsh/parameter module
- 6.9.5: Special completion parameters and
compset
- 6.9.6: Fancier completion: using the tags and styles mechanism
- 6.9.7: Getting the work done for you: handling arguments etc.
- 6.9.8: More completion utility functions
- 7.1.1: Modules defining parameters
- 7.1.2: Low-level system interaction
- 7.1.3: ZFTP
- 7.2.1: Prompt themes