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I'm one of the guys who came across zsh, and use it since then. There has been an interesting thread about parameter substitution, with a summary of all the features that zsh provides.
Check out "RE: Very useful !#^.
It's great to be able to use parameters that have been supplied in the current line, or the line before. Just think about a long command. You press enter, and in the next line, you'll need a parameter again, such as a path name. With !:n, where n is a number that has to be substituted with the position number where the parameter is located.

If you think "hey, what's this zsh stuff all about, there's bash!", check out the brilliant article The last shell you'll ever need.

Zusammenfassung:
Auf der zsh-Users Mailingliste kann man eine schicke Zusammenfassung der möglichen Parameter Substitutionen lesen. Für den Fall, dass man auf Copy+Paste keine Lust hat, aber mal aus der vorherigen, oder aktuellen Zeile, einen Parameter ("ein Wort") braucht.
Sehr gut ist übrigens der Artikel The last shell you'll ever need, bei dem es Vorteile der zsh geht. Korrekturen stehen dann in den Kommentaren. ;-)

It seems as if everything is working out as planned.
1. I started my holiday today.
2. 2GB RAM arrived today, for the machine I'll take with me to the camp. It needs it anyway because I'll use ZFS from FreeBSD-CURRENT with it.
3. I was in a local shop of my phone provider today and got a new SIM card. My old one is a first generation card that isn't capable of dealing with UMTS. This resulted in a problem where the provider couldn't switch my account to the new rate - because I didn't receive a newer SIM card. So I told them that I'll be away next week and that I need the new rate. Tomorrow the new SIM is hopefully being activated and then the new options kick in, too.

Ich habe das Problem hier gefixt, jetzt ist Urlaub!

Ursache des Problems war eine falsche Variablendefinition bei einem Funktionsaufruf. In der zsh geht ein

typeset array=()

eben in die Hose. Und ich war schon am verzweifeln... *seufz*

Diese Zeile hier:

typeset:164: maximum nested function level reached

Hmm...