FIZSH is the Friendly Interactive ZSHell. It is a front end to ZSH. It provides the user of ZSH with interactive syntax-highting and Matlab-like history search. It also has a both short and informative prompt.
In order to install FIZSH, you may run the following:
user@localmachine$ mkdir ./fizsh
user@localmachine$ git clone [email protected]:zsh-users/fizsh
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/fizsh/.git/
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user@localmachine$ cd ./fizsh/fizsh-dev
user@localmachine$ ./configure # or ./configure --bindir=/usr/bin/ --mandir=/usr/share/man/ on Debian based systems
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
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user@localmachine$ make
Making all in src
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user@localmachine$ sudo make install
Making install in src
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user@localmachine$ fizsh
Welcome to fizsh, the friendly interactive zshell
Type man fizsh for instructions on how to use fizsh
You are running fizsh version 1.0.5 now.
You may type fizsh-upgrade to upgrade to the latest
version available on the internet.
You may later type fizsh-reinstall to revert to
version 1.0.5 again.
user@localmachine /p/t/f/fizsh-dev>
Users on Debian based systems can install the latest binary package from Sourceforge:
user@localmachine$ wget --no-check-certificate --output-document=fizsh_1.0.5-1_all.deb "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fizsh/fizsh_1.0.5-1_all.deb?r=&ts=1294513167&use_mirror=garr"
user@localmachine$ sudo dpkg -i ./fizsh_1.0.5-1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package fizsh.
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user@localmachine$ fizsh
Welcome to fizsh, the friendly interactive zshell
Type man fizsh for instructions on how to use fizsh
user@localmachine ~/p/t/current_dir>
Users of "Debian unstable (AKA sid)", and other people who have added a ine like "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main" to their "/etc/apt/sources.list" may simply run:
user@localmachine$ sudo apt-get install fizsh
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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In order to uninstall FIZSH, run:
user@localmachine ~/p/t/f/fizsh-dev> sudo make uninstall
Making uninstall in src
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Those who have installed fizsh through a Debian-based package manager, such as dpkg or apt-get, may run:
user@localmachine ~/p/t/current_dir> sudo apt-get remove fizsh
(Reading database ... 399874 files and directories currently installed.)
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