I have an update to my [previous article]{screen-ssh-agent} on forwarding [ssh-agent]{tag/ssh} through [screen]{tag/screen}. I’ve since switched to [zsh]{tag/zsh} and am now forwarding the X DISPLAY environment variable through to the screen shell.

You can grab my ~/.zsh.d/S51_screen, ~/.zsh.d/S60_prompt, and ~/.screenrc or read below.

I have been playing with zsh a bit today. Here is the outcome:

• use vim to view man pages; this requires manpageview.vim vim plugin.

   function vman() { vim -c ":RMan ${*}" ; }
  

• these function store the current directory in X clipboard and then restore the path from the clipboard, which is handy when you want to restore the path in another xterm…

   function xpwd () { pwd | xclip -i ; xclip -o ; }
   function xcd () { cd `xclip -o` ; }
  

I’ve been using Solaris recently… since yesterday. First reactions: How can anyone use their command line tools!?

Fortunately the system I was on had zsh and vim.

Here is a macro I use to avoid Solaris grep:

    function vimgrep () { tmp="$@" ; vim -c "vimgrep $tmp | copen" ; }

(I could not figure out a way to do it w/o the tmp variable)

Now you can do things like: