Re: autoload

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 09/14/2015 08:48 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sep 14,  7:48pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } One more thing if you would Bart: get me started with combining zcompile
> } with autoload as you mentioned.  It sounds like a good idea but I can't
> } find anything on it.
Thanks, I'll throw myself at it.  This sounds like very satisfying stuff 
for philosophical
reasons--I prefer directness over convenience most of the time and an 
explicit
statement of where functions actually are turns my crank.  That's the 
reason I liked:

    autoload /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/n-*(N-.:t)

... because it's explicit.  Alas it turns out to be disharmonious with 
the nature of the
thing, like teaching a cat to fetch.


> Finally, for Ray, you can for example replace your entire $fpath with
> a single ZWC file:

Marvelous:

6 HP-w5--5-Debian1 /aWorking/Zsh 2$ echo $fpath
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions /usr/share/zsh/vendor-functions 
/usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions /usr/share/zsh/functions/Calendar 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Chpwd /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/AIX 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/BSD 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Base 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Cygwin 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Darwin 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Debian 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Linux 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Mandriva 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Redhat 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Solaris 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/X 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Zsh 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/openSUSE 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Exceptions /usr/share/zsh/functions/MIME 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Misc /usr/share/zsh/functions/Newuser 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Prompts /usr/share/zsh/functions/TCP 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/VCS_Info 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/VCS_Info/Backends /usr/share/zsh/functions/Zftp 
/usr/share/zsh/functions/Zle

... is deeply disturbing on principal, I don't want my shell searching 
the world for my functions, I want it to *know* where they are and 
$fpath is a study in obfuscation.  It is information that subtracts from 
knowledge.

>
>      # Assume starting here with the default $fpath
>      zsh_default_functions=~/.zsh-default-functions.zwc
>      if ! zcompile -t $zsh_default_functions >&/dev/null
>      then
>        # File is missing or out of date.  Rebuild it.
>        # Removes the file if any function cannot be compiled.
>        zcompile $zsh_default_functions $^fpath/*(N.:A)
>      fi
>      if [[ -f $zsh_default_functions ]]
>      then
>        fpath=( $zsh_default_functions )
>        autoload -w $zsh_default_functions
>      fi
>
>
Deep magic ...
Arigato sensei