NAME¶
fizsh - Fizsh is a user friendly front end to zsh.
SYNOPSIS¶
fizsh [OPTIONS] ... [ARGUMENTS] ...
DESCRIPTION¶
Fizsh provides zsh with interactive syntax-highlighting and a MATLAB-like
history-search. Fizsh is intended to look and feel similar to fish. A
distinguishing feature is that fizsh can handle Bourne compatible syntax. This
is because fizsh is a front end to zsh. Fish does not handle Bourne compatible
syntax.
CONFIGURATION¶
"$HOME/.fizsh/" is the directory where fizsh keeps its local
configuration files. The file "$HOME/.fizsh/.fizshrc" serves as the
user's local startup script. Local customizations, such as aliases and
functions, can be added here. This file allows the same syntax as
"$HOME/.zshrc" under zsh. "$HOME/.fizsh/.fizsh_history" is
the name of fizsh's history file. The other files in "$HOME/.fizsh"
are installed when the user runs "/usr/bin/fizsh" for the first
time. These files are automatically overwritten after installing a newer
version of Fizsh. The user may call the function "fizsh-reinstall"
to force a reinstallation of his local configuration files.
Compared to the default configuration of zsh, fizsh additionally sets the
options "append_history", "inc_append_history",
"hist_ignore_all_dups", "hist_reduce_blanks",
"hist_ignore_space", "interactive_comments",
"correct", "no_beep" and "prompt_subst".
For further configuration details consult zsh's man pages
OPTIONS¶
Fizsh is usually invoked without options and without command-line arguments.
The only supported command-line options are currently "--version",
"--help", "--login", shorthands for these commands are
"-v", "-h", "-l" respectively.
"--version" yields fizsh's version number. "--help" causes
fizsh to print brief usage information. "--login" causes fizsh to be
a login shell.
If invoked with other command-line options and/or arguments fizsh will silently
revert to zsh. Therefore, it is safe to use fizsh as one's login shell (.e.g.
by using "chsh -s /usr/bin/fizsh").
BUGS¶
There are no known bugs at the moment. Bug reports, bug fixes and other comments
are welcome.
NOTES¶
MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.
AUTHOR¶
Guido van Steen, based on work by the "zsh-syntax-highlighting
contributors" and the contributors to
"zsh-history-substring-search". The also author gratefully
acknowledges
http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2011/msg00734.html.
SEE ALSO¶
fizsh(1),
fish(1),
zsh(1)