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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Loading completion function from custom fpath
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	(Felipe Sateler's message of "Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:18:45 -0400")
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:01:50 +0200
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Hi Felipe,

Felipe Sateler wrote:
> fpath=('~/.zsh/functions' $fpath)

This doesn't work.

If you put the "~" into quotes (single or double, it doesn't matter) zsh
won't perform tilde-expansion. And thus, you'll end up with a string in
$fpath that starts with '~/' literally, like you pasted:

[...]
> ~/.zsh/functions

And I bet that's not a valid directory on you system. :)

Either leave the quotes off or use double quotes along with $HOME. The
following should be equivalent:

  fpath=(~/.zsh/functions $fpath)
  fpath=("$HOME/.zsh/functions" $fpath)

Either of them should work.

Regards, Frank