[SOLVED] Is this the correct thread to discuss zsh on LQ?

Dear All,

Is this the correct forum to discuss zsh on LQ?

If I am in the wrong place please can you help redirect me.

Regards

Michael Fothergill

At least you made me look it up.

https://sunlightmedia.org/bash-vs-zsh/

Originally Posted by mikefot Dear All, Is this the correct forum to discuss zsh on LQ? If I am in the wrong place please can you help redirect me. Regards Michael Fothergill

Sure...
What is your question/issue about zsh?

Many thanks for your replies.

I am running gentoo stable on FX 8350 box.

I installed zsh foolowing instructions given on gentoo wiki pages.

I don't think I did it quite correctly because when I first ran

chsh -s /bin/zsh

instead of running the start up script it asked for a password to
be entered.

Apparently that is a bad thing.

My .zshrc file is in my

home/user

directory:

bucketlist /home/mikef # more .zshrc
#~!/bin/zsh

#Completion
autoload -U compinit
compinit

# Correction

setopt correctall


#Prompt

autoload -U promptinit
promptinit
prompt gentoo
bucketlist /home/mikef #

These are funny looking commands.

My /etc/shells file looks like this:

mikef@bucketlist /etc % more shells
# /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/dash
/bin/esh
/bin/fish
/bin/ksh
/bin/mksh
/bin/sash
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh
mikef@bucketlist /etc %

mikef@bucketlist /etc % equery l zsh
 * Searching for zsh ...
[IP-] [  ] app-shells/zsh-5.8:0
mikef@bucketlist /etc %

mikef@bucketlist /etc % echo "My current shell is $SHELL ($0)"
My current shell is /bin/zsh (zsh)
mikef@bucketlist /etc %

If you know of any diagnostic tests to check whether zsh is really running properly or not I would appreciate it.

My fear is that it has been installed in an incorrect or half-cocked fashion.

Comments appreciated.

Regards

Michael Fothergill

PS I found the zsh.org community. They explained that my installation of zsh is working Ok.

Problem solved.
Thanks

MF

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