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From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor@fruitbat.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.0.7-2
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0309081037280.31692@gremlin.fruitbat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030908172328.GF8958@redhat.com>

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:14:31AM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:26:42AM -0700, Peter A.  Castro wrote:
> >>>On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> >>>>>you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Editors" and then click
> >>>>>on
> >>>>
> >>>>*giggle* - a little too much cut and paste from mine i see ...  almost
> >>>>made this mistake myself copying from igors...
> >>>
> >>>Ah, Heck! And I tried soooo hard not to mess it up :-( Oh well, it's
> >>>the spirit, not the content, that matters, right ?  8-P
> >>
> >>Not in the cygwin mailing list...  This typo has probably caused at
> >>least one brain aneurysm for someone who was trying to edit their files
> >>via zsh.
> >
> >Ah, but you *can* edit your files via zsh's zle editor...  it's just,
> >kinda, you know, difficult to do...  and saving it afterwards might be
> >a bit of trouble too...  but you get the added bonus of seeing if it'll
> >execute correctly (you, ah, *did* want to execute your document, didn't
> >you?  'case if not, why are you editing it with zsh in the first
> >place!?  P-b
>
> ***cgf's head just exploded

Ummm... sorry for the mess?

Hmmm... I might be able to use zsh's auto-completion functions to
reconstruct your "document" ...ummm... maybe not...

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-08 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-08  3:12 Peter A. Castro
2003-09-08  6:12 ` Gareth Pearce
2003-09-08 16:28   ` Peter A. Castro
2003-09-08 16:32     ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-08 17:18       ` Peter A. Castro
2003-09-08 17:23         ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-08 17:29           ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-08 17:37             ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-08 17:52               ` Peter A. Castro
2003-09-08 18:43                 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-08 17:50             ` Peter A. Castro
2003-09-08 17:48           ` Peter A. Castro [this message]

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