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From: Ian Tegebo <ian.tegebo@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Suggestion: Allow whence to report path(s) for autoloaded functions
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:14:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c21da7250904211414y609f2a62q426555c8feac39e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Given a function name, I'm finding it useful to know where it's
located within fpath:

for p in $fpath; do
  [[ -e $p/_MYFUNC ]] && echo $p/_MYFUNC && break
done

(where fpath is something like ( /blah/path_one/  /blah/path_two/ ) )

It seems like 'whence -v _MYFUNC' is the intuitive place to look for
this behavior.  I'd imagine it working like:

$ whence -v _MYFUNC
_MYFUNC is a shell function defined in /blah/path/_MYFUNC

Consequently, removing the '&& break' provides the expected result for
'whence -a':

$ whence -av _MYFUNC
_MYFUNC is a shell function defined in /blah/path_one/_MYFUNC
_MYFUNC is a shell function defined in /blah/path_two/_MYFUNC

(BTW, is zsh-workers@ more appropriate for discussing changes to builtins?)
-- 
Ian Tegebo


             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21 21:14 Ian Tegebo [this message]
2009-04-22  8:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-04-25 19:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-04-26  1:38   ` Ian Tegebo

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