Zsh is a shell with many advanced command-line and scripting features.
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remove a host from the completion list for ssh in zsh
I once had some hosts named 'myhost', 'myhost1', etc. And now all those except 'myhost3' become invalid. I removed those from /etc/hosts and ~/.ssh/known_hosts, but zsh still completes them for me. Is ...
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Ctrl + left/right arrow keys issue
After the last system update the ctrl + left/right arrow command on zsh terminal doesn't do anything. Also ctrl+ u has something wrong because usually that command erase from the cursor to the ...
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How to make ZSH tab completion work with two tabs
I saw a question like this on here, but the answer didn't work for me. I'm trying to set up tab completion and I want it that if I have two files fileA and fileB and I type fil<tab> it first ...
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ZSH host name completion behaviour change?
I have been using ZSH to do host name completion, and want to change the default behaviour. When I have multiple hosts with similar names, the completion does stuff that I don't care for. An example ...
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zsh: how to fix tab completion so it doesn't hide entries?
I'm using oh-my-zsh on Mac OS X with homebrew'ed zsh 4.3.12. I stumbled recently on a weird problem. In scripts/not-used I have several .R files:
breakdowns.R eventloop.R ...
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zsh: Echoing every statement?
I have an odd problem with zsh when I switch between shells in a particular way:
Option 1 (works well):
I start a zsh shell. I switch to tcsh with /bin/tcsh, and I switch back to zsh with /bin/zsh
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Problems changing PS1 to use special character
I'm trying to get my zsh to look something like this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1068202#p1068202.
Whenever I print the └───╼ part of the PS1 to my terminal (or in the .zshrc for ...
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Completing avfs fake directories in zsh
How can I tweak zsh's completion system to complete “fake” files in some circumstances?
More precisely, the AVFS filesystem exposes archives as directories by creating a “fake directory” next to ...
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Physical Terminal (DEC VT220) issues with ZSH
I recently purchased a VT220 and all the hardware necessary to hook it to my macbook pro. After several hours of fiddling I got it working with a shell - my only problem is my shell of choice, ZSH, ...
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Zsh: quickly bookmark commands
I just had an idea, I'm sure it must exist though I could not find anything on the web.
This topic gets close to my idea but not enough:
How to quickly store and access often used commands?
I'd like ...
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Getting “zsh: command not found: time” when running `time` in subshell
I installed ZSH (and Oh-My-ZSH) on a Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit machine a few days ago. I just tried to do:
time (time ls)
and got this error:
zsh: command not found: time
( time ls; ) 0.00s user 0.00s ...
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Is there a postexec/predisplay hook for ZSH?
I know zsh has a preexec hook that fires before the command is executed, but is there one that fires after the command has been initiated but before the output is displayed to the screen? I ask ...
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preventing the screen from being cleared when exiting an ssh session
I have rdist set up to push out some of my dot files to all the remote machines that I need to ssh into. I also have zsh as my default shell on all of those machines.
When I ssh into a machine and ...
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Navigating through the directory stack in zsh from the command line
In zsh, is there a way to navigate through the history of directories that I have visited (those listed in dirs) when I am typing a command in the command line?
For example, say that I start typing ...
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Make zkbd ignore $DISPLAY
Is it possible to make zkbd ignore $DISPLAY variable? I have set up when I log in to different X sessions and it is annoying if suddenly I need to reenter/copy configuration (and I have no idea why ...
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ESC-q doesn't work in tmux with zsh
The title says it all. I use Escq a lot (stashing the current line while I execute another command), and it works fine with Gnome Terminal 3.6.0 + zsh. However, if I start tmux, then it stops working: ...
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difference between omz “plugins” and “themes”?
What exactly is the difference, operationally, between plugins and themes in oh-my-zsh? I.e. how would things break (if at all) if a plugin were instead put among the themes, or a theme among the ...
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python error using an executable with Z shell
I'm getting this error from the Unix Z shell (I'm on Mac):
python: posix_spawn: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: No such file or ...
