On Tuesday 02 of February 2010 20:41, Polytropon wrote: > I've taken your .zshrc content and installed zsh, but > whenever I started it, "echo $SHELL" tells me it is > /bin/csh... so I'm much more clueless now... :-) the $SHELL variable does not change when you run a subshell. but the shell is launching. take for example: if you run `sh` under a csh login shell, echo $SHELL reports /bin/csh, even tho you are running sh.
> Furthermore, I think the syntax is wrong. You have to > use the format > > alias name='command -opt1 -opt2' correct > And I think - but that's a wild guess! - that the syntax > for your export commands should be different, too, such > as > > HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history > HISTSIZE=50000 > SAVEHIST=50000 correct again -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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