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diff --git a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS index ed20efd6e..4bb564247 100644 --- a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS +++ b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -12,8 +12,22 @@ See the ChangeLog files for a complete list of people who have submitted patches. Note that email addresses below and in the ChangeLog file are included for disambiguation purposes only, and are not guaranteed to be currently accurate. If you feel that you or someone else have -been unfairly omitted from this list please mail the current maintainer -at <coordinator@zsh.org>. +been unfairly omitted from this list please mail the list +<zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>. + +Version 4.3 +----------- + +Contributors to the main shell include Clint Adams, Andrey Borzenkov, Dan +Bullok, Thorsten Dahlheimer, Wayne Davison, Oliver Kiddle, Matthias +Kopferman, Dan Nelson, Toby Peterson, R. Ramkumar, Bart Schaefer, Joerg +Sonnenberger, Peter Stephenson, Philippe Troin, Geoff Wing. + +Contributors to completion functions include those above plus Zack Cerza, +Danek Duvall, Tobias Gruetzmacher, Dough Kearns, Hannu Koivisto, Henryk +Konsek, Scott Murray, Carlos Phillips, Haakon Riiser, Felix Rosencrantz, +Stephen Rüger, Kris Shannon, Travis Spencer, Mĺrten Svantesson, Motoi +Washida, Jess Weinstein. Version 4.2 ----------- diff --git a/Etc/FAQ.yo b/Etc/FAQ.yo index 204018701..e6ff78803 100644 --- a/Etc/FAQ.yo +++ b/Etc/FAQ.yo @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Chapter 3: How to get various things to work 3.2. In which startup file do I put...? 3.3. What is the difference between `export' and the ALL_EXPORT option? 3.4. How do I turn off spelling correction/globbing for a single command? -3.5. How do I get the meta key to work on my xterm? +3.5. How do I get the Meta key to work on my xterm? 3.6. How do I automatically display the directory in my xterm title bar? 3.7. How do I make the completion list use eight bit characters? 3.8. Why do the cursor (arrow) keys not work? @@ -1163,13 +1163,20 @@ sect(How do I turn off spelling correction/globbing for a single command?) be expanded before the rest of the command line is parsed. -sect(How do I get the meta key to work on my xterm?) +sect(How do I get the Meta key to work on my xterm?) label(35) - As stated in the manual, zsh needs to be told about the meta key by + The Meta key isn't present on a lot of keyboards, but on some + the Alt key has the same effect. If a character is typed on the + keyboard while the Meta key is held down, the characters is sent + as terminal input with its eighth bit set. For example, ASCII + mytt(A), hex 65, becomes hex E5. This is sometimes used to provide + extra editing commands. + + As stated in the manual, zsh needs to be told about the Meta key by using mytt(bindkey -me) or mytt(bindkey -mv) in your .zshrc or on the command line. You probably also need to tell the terminal driver to - allow the `meta' bit of the character through; mytt(stty pass8) is the + allow the `Meta' bit of the character through; mytt(stty pass8) is the usual incantation. Sample .zshrc entry: verb( [[ $TERM = "xterm" ]] && stty pass8 && bindkey -me @@ -1186,7 +1193,12 @@ label(35) have tinkered with it. You don't need the mytt(bindkey) to be able to define your own sequences - with the meta key, though you still need the mytt(stty). + with the Meta key, though you still need the mytt(stty). + + If you are using multibyte input directly from the keyboard you + probably don't want to use this feature since the eighth bit in + each byte is used to indicate a part of a multibyte character. See + link(chapter 5)(c5). sect(How do I automatically display the directory in my xterm title bar?) @@ -1953,6 +1965,7 @@ sect(Suppose I want to complete all files during a special completion?) chapter(Multibyte input) +label(c5) sect(What is multibyte input?) @@ -1994,7 +2007,7 @@ sect(What is multibyte input?) characters. However, in the case of Unicode, UTF-8 is the only one you are likely to enounter. - (In case you're confused: Unicode is the characters set, while UTF-8 is + (In case you're confused: Unicode is the character set, while UTF-8 is an encoding of it. You might hear about other encodings, such as UCS-2 and UCS-4 which are basically the character's index in the character set as a two-octet or four-octet integer. You might see files encoded this @@ -2015,14 +2028,21 @@ sect(How does zsh handle multibyte input?) has been compiled with the appropriate definitions. This will happen automatically if the compiler defines __STDC_ISO_10646__, which is true for many recent GNU-based systems. On other systems you must configure - zsh with the argument --enable-multibyte to configure. (The reason for - this is that the presence of __STDC_ISO_10646__ ensures all the required - library support is present, short-circuiting a large number of - configuration tests.) Explicit use of --enable-multibyte should work on - many other recent UNIX systems; if it works on yours, and that's not - mentioned in the shell documentation, please report this to - zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, and if it doesn't but you can work out why not - we'd also be interested in hearing. + zsh with the argument --enable-multibyte to configure. Explicit use of + --enable-multibyte should work on many other recent UNIX systems; if it + works on yours, and that's not mentioned in the shell documentation, + please report this to zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, and if it doesn't but you + can work out why not we'd also be interested in hearing. + + (The reason for the test for __STDC_ISO_10646__ is that its presence + happens to indicate that the required library support is likely to be + present, short-circuiting a large number of configuration tests. This + isn't strictly guaranteed, since the definition indicates the rather more + limited fact that the wide character representation used internally by + the shell is Unicode. However, in practice such systems provide the + right level of support for zsh to use. It would be better to test + individually for the library features the shell needs; unfortunately + there are a lot of them.) You can test if multibyte handling is compiled into your version of the shell by running: @@ -2100,6 +2120,14 @@ sect(How do I ensure multibyte input works on my system?) Unicode characters than others. ) + As mentioned in the previous section, mytt(bindkey -m) now outputs + a warning message telling you that multibyte input from the terminal + is likely not to work. (See link(3.5)(35) if you don't know what + this feature does.) If your terminal doesn't have characters + that need to be input as multibyte, however, you can still use + the meta bindings and can ignore the warning message. Use + mytt(bindkey -m 2>/dev/null) to suprress it. + sect(How can I input characters that aren't on my keyboard?) @@ -2119,7 +2147,7 @@ sect(How can I input characters that aren't on my keyboard?) tt(insert-composed-char) is followed by two characters that are a mnemonic for a multibyte character. For example mytt(a:) - is a with an umlaut; mytt(cH) is the symbol for hearts on a playing + is a with an Umlaut; mytt(cH) is the symbol for hearts on a playing card. Various accented characters, European and related alphabets, and punctuation and mathematical symbols are available. The mnemonics are mostly those given by RFC 1345, see |