Re: Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen

[Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>]

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