NAME
zoidfaq - Frequently Asked Questions for Zoidberg
DESCRIPTION
About the project
What's with the name ?
If you don't know where the name comes from, you should watch more cartoons.
Quoting some futurama episode about a certain docter Zoidberg :
"He's a weird monster who smells
like he eats garbage and does"
This program was from the very beginning intended to become a huge and bloated monster.
Is it stable yet ?
NO ! If it is stable we'll call it 1.00 . Currently we are working towards a 0.50 release that will be the first candidate for a stable version.
Is it safe to use it already ?
Kind of, as long as you don't try too fancy stuff with too many privileges.
Features
How do I turn off ansi colours ?
Set the environment variable CLICOLOR to 0 (null).
What's with the single arrow ?
When you type perl code without brackets around it, zoid does a little source filtering making a arrow '->
' (the dereference operator) at the start of a word an alias for '$shell->
'. Where '$shell
' is the main shell object.
zoid$ ->Commands->cd(q/../)
# is the same as
zoid$ $shell->Commands->cd(q/../)
Errors
I upgraded to a new version of zoid and it crash immediately !?
If you have all dependencies right you probably need to remove either the directory ~/.zoid
or the file ~/.cache/zoid_path_cache
.
I got a segfault after using perl syntax, is this a bug ?
Well, if it _is_ a bug then probably it's a bug in perl, not in zoid. Most notoriously if you use globs in perl code, perl 5.8.0 can segfault; upgrading to perl 5.8.2 fixes this problem.