NAME
Zoidberg - an other perl shell
SYNOPSIS
use Zoidberg;
blah blah blahDESCRIPTION
Stub documentation for Zoidberg, created by h2xs. It looks like the author of the extension was negligent enough to leave the stub unedited.
Word from the author: Coding cool features has priority over documentation, documentation will follow as soon as the features are stable. (This is if the project lives long enough to see that day. )
basicly it provides a shell written in perl (i know, yet another ...). It is intended to be a replacement for bash in the future.
Features include: runs perl from shell prompt (duh!) config in perl code perl codable prompt perl codable key bindings runtime loadable modules regex tab expansion
planned: multi line editing (soon) pipes (soon) jobs screen inter user communication wrappers for several CPAN modules like mailbox
There exist some similar projects but we want more modular functionality, things like loading modules in runtime and using them halfway a pipe. Also we like to the config to be hardcore perl - i.e any expression that evaluates to a ref, so config files can contain anything from a string to a extra module (although this would not be the preferred way to load a module). Also one should be able to overload any basic module - like for example the prompt generating module - while working in the shell.
EXPORT
None by default.
AUTHOR
Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus [Larus] <j.g.karssenberg@student.utwente.nl> R.L. Zwart, <carlos@caremail.nl>
Copyright (c) 2002 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
perl.