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diff --git a/Etc/BUGS b/Etc/BUGS index 2a255444f..dd356013a 100644 --- a/Etc/BUGS +++ b/Etc/BUGS @@ -2,9 +2,20 @@ KNOWN BUGS IN ZSH ----------------- +On some terminals, display of lines with exactly 80 characters is +problematic. zsh assumes that the terminal does not print an extra +newline in this case, but some terminals (e.g. aixterm) do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Completion has a habit of doing the wrong thing after a -backslash/newline. +When interrupting code like the following with ^C: + while true; do + sh -c '...' + done +if the `sh' is executing, zsh does not know that the sh received a ^C and +continues with the next iteration. This happens for any program which +handles the interrupt, then exits after tidying up; it does not happen for +zsh, which exits directly from the signal handler. The workaround is to +use ^Z which forks the shell and makes the loop a separate job, then kill +the suspended loop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you suspend "man", zle seems to get into cooked mode. It works ok for plain "less". @@ -26,12 +37,6 @@ Then if you suspend % foo less something from zsh/bash, zle/readline gets into cooked mode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -% zsh -c 'cat a_long_file | less ; :' -can be interrupted with ^C. The prompt comes back and less is orphaned. -If you go to the end of the file with less and cat terminates, ^C -will not terminate less. The `; :' after less forces zsh to fork before -executing less. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pattern %?* matches names beginning with %? instead of names with at least two characters beginning with %. This is a hack to allow %?foo job substitution without quoting. This behaviour is incompatible with sh @@ -39,3 +44,7 @@ and ksh and may be removed in the future. A good fix would be to keep such patterns unchanged if they do not match regardless of the state of the nonomatch and nullglob options. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Numeric ranges are still too greedy with using characters; for example, +<1-1000>33 will not match 633 because the 633 matches the range. Some +backtracking will be necessary. (This is believed fixed as of 3.1.6.) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ |