Hi. Who wants to try devloping a new shell with me? The main goals: try adding some haskell scriting instead of bash/zsh, history dependend on a) executing program b) current dir c) last commands d) workspaces which should mean that the shell should save at least the last 10 commands of a,b,c,d. So you can do emerge (lookup parameters in history) even if you haven't used emerge for ages.. :) Nice, isn't it? d) Workspaces should mean: You can define some kind of workspace like workspace=haskellproject, wash, apache to add these tags together with the commands to the history.. So when working only in the "wash" workspace you can easily find those commands.. Perhpas it's even useful to attach commands or even scripts to those workspaces? eg the startApache script may be attached to admin, apache, ..., the cd /etc/init.d command only to admin.. I also would like to have some advanced kind of directory matching, defining aliases for directories. eg just type cd /usl to get a list of diretories looking like this: /UserShupportLocales /usr/src/linux /usl ? Using tab and bash is nice but it might be done better? Any suggestions? One would have to think about how to run processes in background and so on ... adding files as parameters the way it's possible in mc ( select them and add them to the command line ) perhaps even implement cp/mv/ ... for virtual file systems like zip files/ ftp/ ... ? and last but not least: on windows add all Programs beeing found in Start-> Programs to the path list... I wish I could just do word/ Enterprise Manager at a shell and not searching for the menu entries over and over again.. ;) I know I can add them the to the path.. but that would be some work, too.. and not desirable in any case. I could imagine adding a small prefix to each cmd eg. eb (execute bash cmd) ez (execute zsh cmd) r (remove file list) efs (execute from windows start menu) bg <cmd> run in background like bashs & feature. Perhaps even introduce some new syntax ? or use ghci or hugs with a preprocessor to translate these commands to haskell commands? What do you think? Marc Weber