Ksh features incorporated into Zsh?

Question

I have been a user of Bash for some time. I want to learn at least one other shell now, so I have been picking up the Korn Shell. However, it doesn't look like Ksh has had major updates for almost twenty years, and I have read that Zsh incorporates features from it. I have been reading many of the shell comparison questions on the StackExchange network, but have not found an answer to this: Are there features from Korn Shell that Zsh does not incorporate? If so, what are they?

Answer 1

Here's the Wikipedia article on command shell comparison.

According to that, the only feature ksh has that zsh doesn't is Named parameters for user defined "types". There may be others as that article is not an exhaustive list, especially for obscure features.

Going in the other direction, the answer to your question could fill a book (possibly this one).

Zsh has many features that ksh doesn't. A few popular ones are command stack, directory stack, history sharing and rprompt.

• Command Stack is when you're typing a command and you realize that you should run another command first. Just send the current line to the command stack, run the other command then pop the command off the stack. You can do this multiple times. (zsh is the only shell I know of that provides this).
• Directory Stack (aka pushd/popd) is when you want to change to directories in succession then cd back in reverse order. (Many shells provide this, including bash).
• History Sharing is where every open shell shares a single common history. Execute a command in one window, switch to another and it will be available in your history.
• rprompt is just like your prompt, except it's right justified. Many people like to put the cwd or date in the rprompt.

Here are some discussions on Stack Exchange sites about zsh:

• What zsh features do you use?
• Unique features of bash compared to zsh