NAME
zoidfaq - Frequently Asked Questions about 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 .
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 syntax ?
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/../)I dislike jobs ending without waiting for me to hit a key :(
This behaviour is called asynchronous notification. It is not a real default option; it is turned on in the default 'zoidrc' file. Remove the setting "notify" from our 'zoidrc' file or try set +o notify.
Does zoid have a "RPROMPT" ?
No, but Term::ReadLine::Zoid does :) If you use this module try setting $ENV{RPS1}.
I miss feature X, every shell should have feature X !
Probably it's on the TODO list, or at some list at least. Try the mailing list.
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.
Also it might be a good idea to clean up /usr/share/zoid and/or /usr/local/share/zoid before installing a new version.
I upgraded to a new version of zoid and it hangs !
See the previous question.
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.