Re: Sourcing .zshrc from .zprofile causes problems

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, lists wrote:

> if [[ -f ~/.zshrc ]]; then . ~/.zshrc ; fi
> 
> in my .zprofile

That shouldn't be necessary.  The ~/.zshrc is read by all interactive 
shells, and the ~/.zprofile by all login shells.  Although it's possible
to create a non-interactive login shell, it's rather unlikely.

So the problem here ...

> .zshrc:unalias:181: no such hash table element: run-help

... is that the ~/.zshrc is read _twice_, once when you source it and then 
again when zsh normally would read it, and the second time run-help has
already been unaliased.

> The error message goes away when in don't source .zshrc in my .zprofile.

Yep.

> However, at that point the following zstyle from my .zshrc file
> 
> zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}
> 
> doesn't work

There must be some kind of order-dependency involved.  The normal sequence
of file reads (where you fail to see colored listings) would be (ignoring
zshenv and zlogin for now)
	/etc/zprofile
	~/.zprofile
	/etc/zshrc
	~/.zshrc

To make colored listings work, you've changed the order to
	/etc/zprofile
	~/.zprofile + ~/.zshrc
	/etc/zshrc
	~/.zshrc

When you "exec zsh" chances are it's no longer a login shell, so the two
zprofile files are not sourced in that case ... since coloring works then,
that would tend to indicate that something in the ~/.zprofile is causing
the problem, and it would have to be something that comes after the point
where you inserted the sourcing of ~/.zshrc.

Does ~/.zprofile perhaps change the value of $LS_COLORS ?