4NT vs. Bash (Was Re: problem with find/grep)

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Wed Dec 1 08:38:00 GMT 2004


Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:50:43PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>
>>>On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:29:59AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>
>>>>This way you have all the good terminal stuff from 4nt, and bash.
>>>>Just some keys have to be programmed if you don't like the default.
>>>
>>>FWIW, I like having a full-featured pure-windows command shell for those
>>>times when I've broken things so badly that bash doesn't work.
>>
>>I've just tried zoid, which is a shell in perl.
>>
>>cpan Bundle::Zoidberg
>>http://search.cpan.org/~pardus/Zoidberg-0.91/
>>
>>Highly recommended if you do some perl programming.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.  I installed this and love being able to type in
> arbitrary perl commands.  I assume I must be doing something wrong, though,
> because this is my prompt:
> 
> \C{bold,blue}\u@\h \A \C{green}\W\$\C{reset}
> 
> Is something supposed to be interpreting this?  Am I missing a package?

Looks like your are missing Env::PS1.
Did the bundle successfully install Env::PS1 and Term::ReadLine::Zoid?

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Reini Urban
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