compinit, $fpath, and recursive searching.

compinit, $fpath, and recursive searching.

[Jason Price]

When I install zsh from source, if I set the $fpath to 

   fpath=( /usr/local/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/functions )

it works right.

Now, these people who install zsh as a package tend to break the functions
into various sub directories, which is well and good, but when I try to 

autoload -U compinit ; compinit

it doesn't work.  Currently, this quandary is showing up in solaris 10 (I
was impressed that solaris 10 includes version 4.2.1). 

Compinstall claims that the $fpath is set correctly, and adds the autoload
stuff in, but it errors out with:

./.zshrc:95: compinit: function definition file not found

What are the appropriate setting(s) when you divide up the completion
functions into directories?

Thanks for any help;
jason

Re: compinit, $fpath, and recursive searching.

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 09), Jason Price said:
> When I install zsh from source, if I set the $fpath to 
> 
>    fpath=( /usr/local/share/zsh/$ZSH_VERSION/functions )
> 
> it works right.

If you had left in zsh's default fpath elements, it would have worked
better:

fpath=( $fpath /more/fpath/paths )
 
> What are the appropriate setting(s) when you divide up the completion
> functions into directories?

If you have subdirs inside site-functions, or some other local
directory, just use a wildcard to enumerate them ( /primary/path/**/ ) .

The default value of $fpath on my s10b72 box is:

( /usr/sfw/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/AIX
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/BSD
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Base
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Cygwin
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Debian
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Linux
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Mandrake
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Redhat
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Unix
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/X
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Completion/Zsh
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/MIME
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Misc
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Prompts
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/TCP
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Zftp
/usr/sfw/share/zsh/4.2.1/functions/Zle )


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