* Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen
@ 2004-06-05 19:30 Aaron Davies
2004-06-05 19:39 ` Dan Nelson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Aaron Davies @ 2004-06-05 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
I've been trying to figure out the named dirs issue I wrote about
several weeks ago, but I'm still having problems. The situation is
this: I would like to create a named dir "palmfiles" expanding to
"~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron Davies/Files to Install". To this end, I
have in my .zprofile the following line:
export palmfiles=~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron\ Davies/Files\ to\ Install
and in my .zshrc:
setopt AUTO_NAME_DIRS
My goal, incidentally, is to have ~palmfiles expandable immediately
upon shell startup (ie, typing "~palm<TAB>" should work, not beep). In
this I am successful, as long as I'm in zsh directly. However, I prefer
to run all my consoles within GNU screen, and there it breaks down.
~palmfiles is still a valid named dir, but it will not expand until
it's been used once. I've tried the following: putting the setopt in my
zprofile, putting ": palmfiles" in my zprofile, putting ": palmfiles"
in my zshrc. None of them worked.
Does anyone have any other ideas?
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* Re: Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen
2004-06-05 19:30 Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen Aaron Davies
@ 2004-06-05 19:39 ` Dan Nelson
2004-06-05 19:42 ` Aaron Davies
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Dan Nelson @ 2004-06-05 19:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Aaron Davies; +Cc: zsh-users
In the last episode (Jun 05), Aaron Davies said:
> I've been trying to figure out the named dirs issue I wrote about
> several weeks ago, but I'm still having problems. The situation is
> this: I would like to create a named dir "palmfiles" expanding to
> "~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron Davies/Files to Install". To this end, I
> have in my .zprofile the following line:
>
> export palmfiles=~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron\ Davies/Files\ to\ Install
>
> and in my .zshrc:
>
> setopt AUTO_NAME_DIRS
Try putting that setopt in .zprofile, _above_ your variable definition,
or move the variable definition into .zshrc. The execution order of
startup scripts is:
.zshenv .zprofile .zshrc .zlogin
So AUTO_NAME_DIRS isn't yet set when the variable is first set. You
could also run
hash -d palmfiles=~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron\ Davies/Files\ to\ Install
which will create a named directory without the matching shell variable
(if that's what you want).
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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* Re: Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen
2004-06-05 19:39 ` Dan Nelson
@ 2004-06-05 19:42 ` Aaron Davies
2004-06-05 21:35 ` Aaron Davies
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Aaron Davies @ 2004-06-05 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Saturday, June 5, 2004, at 03:39 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 05), Aaron Davies said:
>> I've been trying to figure out the named dirs issue I wrote about
>> several weeks ago, but I'm still having problems. The situation is
>> this: I would like to create a named dir "palmfiles" expanding to
>> "~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron Davies/Files to Install". To this end, I
>> have in my .zprofile the following line:
>>
>> export palmfiles=~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron\ Davies/Files\ to\
>> Install
>>
>> and in my .zshrc:
>>
>> setopt AUTO_NAME_DIRS
>
> Try putting that setopt in .zprofile, _above_ your variable definition,
> or move the variable definition into .zshrc. The execution order of
> startup scripts is:
>
> .zshenv .zprofile .zshrc .zlogin
I moved the variable definition into zshrc, which did it. I could have
sworn I'd tried that before . . . . Thanks!
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* Re: Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen
2004-06-05 19:42 ` Aaron Davies
@ 2004-06-05 21:35 ` Aaron Davies
2004-06-06 3:41 ` Dan Nelson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Aaron Davies @ 2004-06-05 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Jun 5, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Aaron Davies wrote:
> On Saturday, June 5, 2004, at 03:39 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
>
>> In the last episode (Jun 05), Aaron Davies said:
>>
>>> I've been trying to figure out the named dirs issue I wrote about
>>> several weeks ago, but I'm still having problems. The situation is
>>> this: I would like to create a named dir "palmfiles" expanding to
>>> "~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron Davies/Files to Install". To this end,
>>> I
>>> have in my .zprofile the following line:
>>>
>>> export palmfiles=~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron\ Davies/Files\ to\
>>> Install
>>>
>>> and in my .zshrc:
>>>
>>> setopt AUTO_NAME_DIRS
>>
>> Try putting that setopt in .zprofile, _above_ your variable
>> definition,
>> or move the variable definition into .zshrc. The execution order of
>> startup scripts is:
>>
>> .zshenv .zprofile .zshrc .zlogin
>
> I moved the variable definition into zshrc, which did it. I could have
> sworn I'd tried that before . . . . Thanks!
BTW, I also tried putting them both in zprofile, which didn't work from
within screen. It looks like it's not called again when zsh is started
by screen--I guess it must be started as a non-login shell?
--
Aaron Davies
agdavi01@louisville.edu
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* Re: Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen
2004-06-05 21:35 ` Aaron Davies
@ 2004-06-06 3:41 ` Dan Nelson
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Dan Nelson @ 2004-06-06 3:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Aaron Davies; +Cc: zsh-users
In the last episode (Jun 05), Aaron Davies said:
> On Jun 5, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Aaron Davies wrote:
> >On Saturday, June 5, 2004, at 03:39 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >>
> >>Try putting that setopt in .zprofile, _above_ your variable
> >>definition, or move the variable definition into .zshrc. The
> >>execution order of startup scripts is:
> >>
> >>.zshenv .zprofile .zshrc .zlogin
> >
> >I moved the variable definition into zshrc, which did it. I could
> >have sworn I'd tried that before . . . . Thanks!
>
> BTW, I also tried putting them both in zprofile, which didn't work
> from within screen. It looks like it's not called again when zsh is
> started by screen--I guess it must be started as a non-login shell?
Oops; right, I shouldn't have suggested that.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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