From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27864 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2004 19:43:15 -0000 Received: from thor.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.86) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Jun 2004 19:43:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 32398 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2004 19:42:55 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 5 Jun 2004 19:42:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 19715 invoked by alias); 5 Jun 2004 19:42:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7488 Received: (qmail 19705 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2004 19:42:48 -0000 Received: from thor.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (qmailr@130.225.247.86) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 5 Jun 2004 19:42:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 31718 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2004 19:42:45 -0000 Received: from erouter1.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (136.165.5.195) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 5 Jun 2004 19:42:42 -0000 Received: from savgw-out.louisville.edu (savgw-out.louisville.edu [136.165.2.38]) by erouter1.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id EFC5E3D815 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:42:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netmail.louisville.edu ([136.165.5.76]) by savgw-out.louisville.edu (SAVSMTP 3.1.5.43) with SMTP id M2004060515403808599 for ; Sat, 05 Jun 2004 15:40:38 -0400 Received: from louisville.edu agdavi01@netmail.louisville.edu [12.220.223.80] by netmail.louisville.edu with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.22.1.5 $ on Linux via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sat, 05 Jun 2004 15:42:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:42:38 -0400 Subject: Re: Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Aaron Davies To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20040605193910.GD42830@dan.emsphone.com> Message-Id: <80332FAE-B728-11D8-A891-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.5 required=6.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 2.5 On Saturday, June 5, 2004, at 03:39 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 05), Aaron Davies said: >> I've been trying to figure out the named dirs issue I wrote about >> several weeks ago, but I'm still having problems. The situation is >> this: I would like to create a named dir "palmfiles" expanding to >> "~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron Davies/Files to Install". To this end, I >> have in my .zprofile the following line: >> >> export palmfiles=~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron\ Davies/Files\ to\ >> Install >> >> and in my .zshrc: >> >> setopt AUTO_NAME_DIRS > > Try putting that setopt in .zprofile, _above_ your variable definition, > or move the variable definition into .zshrc. The execution order of > startup scripts is: > > .zshenv .zprofile .zshrc .zlogin I moved the variable definition into zshrc, which did it. I could have sworn I'd tried that before . . . . Thanks! -- __ __ / ) / ) /--/ __. __ ________ / / __. , __o _ _ / (_(_/|_/ (_(_) / / <_ /__/_(_/|_\/ <__