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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@cs.technion.ac.il>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: newbie's question about completion
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:47:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ad6387093vincent@vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011108143515.A14099@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>

In article <20011108143515.A14099@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>,
   Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> I don't understand why distributions do this... Zsh has a set of defaults
> and these are clearly explained in the manual; If a distribution overrides
> this default, it leaves the user clueless why the behavior described in
> the manual is not happening.

I entirely agree. Sometimes, this is worse, as things in /etc/zshrc
override the user's settings in his ~/.zshenv! For instance, in
SuSE 7.2, /etc/profile is sourced in /etc/zshrc, and this overrides
the path the user has set in his zshenv. Really annoying...

> And why do they think that their defaults make more sense than the defaults
> decided upon by the zsh developers?

Or perhaps zsh's default should be not to source the system files,
perhaps except /etc/zshenv?

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-08 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-08  9:37 Dan Kenigsberg
2001-11-08  9:46 ` Will Yardley
2001-11-08 11:01 ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-11-08 11:44   ` Dan Kenigsberg
2001-11-08 12:06     ` Nadav Har'El
2001-11-08 12:25       ` Dan Kenigsberg
2001-11-08 12:35         ` Nadav Har'El
2001-11-08 13:47           ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2001-11-08 13:56             ` Peter Stephenson
2001-11-08 14:35               ` Vincent Lefevre
2001-11-08 14:15             ` Mads Martin Joergensen

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