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From: Guillaume Brunerie <guillaume.brunerie@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:38:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: Path does not update until I logout/log in
To: John <da_audiophile@yahoo.com>
Cc: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
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Hello,

You can use the `rehash' command which will update the list of known comman=
ds.
You can put this command in your precmd() if you don=E2=80=99t want to have=
 to
do it everytime.

Guillaume

2012/12/4 John <da_audiophile@yahoo.com>:
> If I install a new executable via my package manager, zsh doesn't allow m=
e to see it via auto-completion until I either source my ~/.zshrc again.  I=
s there a setting that would control this?  Note that under bash, I don't n=
eed to tweak anything to get this behavior.
>
> Here is another tangible example:
>
> 1) Open two xterms
> 2) In one xterm do this:  sudo ln -s /usr/bin/top /usr/bin/newsymlink
>
> Now, if in the 2nd xterm I start typing, nothing happens for autocomplete=
:  newsy<TAB>
>
> Here is my config file:
>
> $ cat ~/.zshrc
> ZSH=3D$HOME/.zsh
>
> for config_file ($ZSH/lib/*.zsh) source $config_file
>
>
> for i in aliases commonrc functions zsh ; do [[ -f $HOME/.$i ]] && . $HOM=
E/.$i ; done
>
>
> PROMPT=3D'%(!.%{$fg_bold[red]%}.%{$fg_bold[white]%}%n@)%m %{$fg_bold[blue=
]%}%(!.%1~.%~) %#%{$reset_color%} '
>
>
> REPORTTIME=3D5
>
> autoload -U compinit
>
> compinit -i