[gentoo-dev] man/zsh problems? bug? dircolors is incompatible

[gentoo-dev] man/zsh problems? bug? dircolors is incompatible

[Mark]

Zsh is really a nice shell. But it's not very well supported in Gentoo.

1. The "man" command doesn't seem to work under Zsh.
2. dircolors on my Slackware box has a "-z" switch for Zsh, dircolors in
Gentoo does not. (What ebuild is dircolors a part of?)
3. If I found those problems in a matter of minutes, they probably
aren't the only ones.

Is anyone else using/trying Zsh? How's it going?
Have I just done something wrong? ....
If not, the man issue should definately be a bug. What about the
dircolors issue?

Thanks.
-Mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] man/zsh problems? bug? dircolors is incompatible

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:59:43AM -0500, Mark wrote:
> Zsh is really a nice shell. But it's not very well supported in Gentoo.
> 
> 1. The "man" command doesn't seem to work under Zsh.

It is known. Silly me forgot to fix it properly.

> Is anyone else using/trying Zsh? How's it going?
> Have I just done something wrong? ....
> If not, the man issue should definately be a bug.

It is. I have tried to work out the Correct workaround, 
but with no luck. The Not-So-Correct workaround is to 
not gzip the zsh man pages.

If nobody else fixes this before Saturday, I'll have a 
look at it then.

Karl T

Re: [gentoo-dev] man/zsh problems? bug? dircolors is incompatible

[Mark]

After some investigating...
It seems man requires some of the environment variables set in 
/etc/profile to work.
I had created a symbolic link from /etc/zprofile to /etc/profile when I 
installed zsh, so I wasn't thinking that this would be the problem.
It turns out that zsh is not reading /etc/zprofile for some reason. But 
if you force it to (". /etc/zprofile, or . /etc/profile") then all is fine.

-Mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] man/zsh problems? bug? dircolors is incompatible

[Jerry A!]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:39:30PM -0500, Mark wrote:
: After some investigating...
: It seems man requires some of the environment variables set in 
: /etc/profile to work.
: I had created a symbolic link from /etc/zprofile to /etc/profile when I 
: installed zsh, so I wasn't thinking that this would be the problem.
: It turns out that zsh is not reading /etc/zprofile for some reason. But 
: if you force it to (". /etc/zprofile, or . /etc/profile") then all is fine.

You're not by any chance setting one of the global_* or *_rcs (and
especially global_rcs) options in any of your z-dotfiles?

        --Jerry

Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
...It's much more important than that!

Re: [gentoo-dev] man/zsh problems? bug? dircolors is incompatible

[Mark]

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>You're not by any chance setting one of the global_* or *_rcs (and
>especially global_rcs) options in any of your z-dotfiles?
>
>        --Jerry
>
>Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
>...It's much more important than that!
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Well, I'll fire up my laptop a little later and take a look, but I never 
created one (a .zsh* file).
Does zsh create one for you if it doesn't exist?