Re: autoload

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 09/18/2015 09:52 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } I see.  Nuts, there's nothing about that in the docs is there?
>
> There's an entire section for "Autoloading Functions" but it has no
> cross-reference from the "autoload" builtin (autoload points to
> functions points to typeset which finally does have the section
> reference).  I'll rearrange this a bit.
What would be sweet is a self-contained HOWTO sort of doc that walks you 
through the
entire subject with real world examples of solutions for real 
situations.  IOW, instead of
focusing on a command, it would focus on the goal: "Say you want your 
functions to
load faster.  Up till now you've been sourcing them at startup, which is 
fine, but
you can do much better ...."  ... 20 minutes latter you are cooking.
>
> }
> }      $ for aa in /aWorking/Zsh/Source/*; do source $aa; done
>
> You can do that:
>
> FPATH=/aWorking/Zsh/Source autoload +X -w /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Source.zwc
>
> The +X option is documented and means "load this now, but don't run it."
>
Ha!  Just when I'd decided to give up.