Support for Z shell

[shellkr]

Right now Finalterm only supports Bash which is good as it is the most popular shell.. but Zsh is also popular and should be possible to use. Zsh offer a lot of improvements over Bash.

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[p-e-w]

I agree, though that will probably only happen after Final Term (with bash) is fully stable. But I definitely intend to support all major shells in the future.

[nerzhul]

I approve @Almehdi i use zsh every time and unfortunately i cannot use this very good terminal emulator with ZSH because the cursor is at the begin of the line, not after the prompt :s

[super-nathan]

frankly was trying to build this until I saw no ZSH,

:(

[p-e-w]

Please be patient, folks :)

I'll revisit zsh once Final Term works properly with bash.

[nerzhul]

This problem is also present when we do a SSH session on a server with zsh :(

@p-e-w Does "all major shells" include fish?

[p-e-w]

@AlyxR: It does, to me at least :)

See #44

[nerzhul]

Maybe you must change your terminal approach because of variety of shells ?

[tsdh]

What is finalterm concerned about what shell it's running? The output of commands is the same in every shell, or does it interact more with the shell than parsing the output of known commands?

IMHO, if it was possible, I'd welcome if it just runs whatever SHELL the user has set. Feel free to state explicitly that it might break with everything except bash, but I'd still be able to run my beloved, highly configured ZSH.

[tsdh]

Ah, ok, I've just seen that no feature making finalterm innovative works when I start a zsh manually. Do you have some pointers/docs on what's needed to make it work with other shells?

[p-e-w]

@tsdh: What's needed to make another shell work with Final Term is a startup script along the lines of https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/blob/master/data/Startup/bash_startup that injects the custom control sequences that tell Final Term what is going on inside the shell.