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• Zsh! (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981)

  Sounds like you want zsh... Most of the file selection stuff can be done with zsh's extended globbing [dotsrc.org]. Then it becomes available for every application, not just ack/grep.

  But the colour highlighting does look cool. :-)

  -Dom
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by ferreira (5993)

    Don't be so mean: zsh isn't for everyone out there. Remember the OS-impaired people. I know they (me among them) possibly can install a port of zsh, but installing ack is so much easier. And there is the portability issue Andy mentioned.

    Disclaimer: installing ack is easy if you have a working setting for CPAN, which is not that hard.
    • Re:Zsh! (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2006.11.30 8:10 (#51984) Homepage Journal

      Well, there's always cygwin if you want bash or zsh under windows. It's not for everybody, but I find it to be a tolerable working environment when I'm in Windows.

      But I more just wanted to point out a feature that I use everyday. grep Foo **/*.pm is really handy and I think more people should use zsh and take advantage of these features!

      -Dom

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