autoload

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

Bart:

I did this, which should be verbatim as you posted:


     # 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       # File is missing or out of date.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

... and I get:

     /aWorking/Zsh/Boot/ztest:5: parse error near `)'
     /aWorking/Zsh/Boot/ztest:zcompile:10: can't read file: /usr/share 
                 /zsh/functions/Completion /Base.zwc

('ztest' being sourced by .zshrc and where I do experiments.)

'Base.zwc' exists:

     $ ls -l Base.zwc
     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269472 Aug 31 16:26 Base.zwc

... and  "zcompile -t Base.zwc" doesn't report anything amiss.

The  " parse error near `)' " msg. is puzzling since it always reports 
line 5 regardless of anything added above it ,eg: "echo "this echo is 
only here to add a line of code"".

For example if I modify your code like this:

     line5
         # Assume starting here with the default $fpath
zsh_default_functions=~/.zsh-default-functions.zwc
     line9

... I get this:

     /aWorking/Zsh/Boot/ztest:5: command not found: line5
     /aWorking/Zsh/Boot/ztest:9: command not found: line9
     /aWorking/Zsh/Boot/ztest:5: parse error near `)'
     /aWorking/Zsh/Boot/ztest:zcompile:14: can't read file: /usr/share 
/zsh/functions/Completion/Base.zwc

... so the deliberate errors are as expected, yet she insists on finding 
an `)' error on line 5 as well, and that after having reached line 9, so 
I have no idea how to understand that.