From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6620 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 13:47:45 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (?UV2iA69VWh74eZ6fVx+q+0Ey3ExoeXLF?@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 13:47:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 3507 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 13:47:43 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by proxy.melb.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 13:47:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 879 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2001 13:47:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4464 Received: (qmail 866 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 13:47:25 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Vincent Lefevre To: Dan Kenigsberg Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:47:10 +0100 Subject: Re: newbie's question about completion Message-ID: <4ad6387093vincent@vinc17.org> In-Reply-To: <20011108143515.A14099@leeor.math.technion.ac.il> References: <20011108140606.A11857@leeor.math.technion.ac.il> <200111081225.OAA22487@csd.cs.technion.ac.il> <20011108143515.A14099@leeor.math.technion.ac.il> User-Agent: Pluto/2.03e (RISC-OS/4.02) POPstar/2.03 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <20011108143515.A14099@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>, Nadav Har'El 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? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: - 100% validated HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA