Re: Completing a unique prefix of "script" completes "script"

["Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>]

On 8/14/06, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> > It seems that the hash table is initialized after .zshrc is read.  Is
> > there a way to run some scripts after everything is initiaziled?
>
> Hmm... I haven't looked at the source but in my case it seems to
> be being hashed straight away...
>
> zsh -f -c 'zmodload -i zsh/parameter
> print $commands[script]
> unhash script
> print $commands[script]'
>
> prints /usr/bin/script the first time and nothing the second time.
> /etc/zshenv is empty.  Aha---it looks like zsh/parameter is filling the
> hash table itself (based on the HASHLISTALL option which is on by default).
> So maybe putting
>
> zmodload -i zsh/parameter
>
> early in your initialization file (it'll probably be loaded by the completion
> system later anyway) is good enough.

Nope.  It seems zmodload returns before the hash table is fully
initialized.  If I put a "sleep 1" in there it works, but without it
it'll still complain about the command not being hashed.

Actually, a "sleep 0" seems to work as well...

That's /one/ thing /I/ don't understand...

  nikolai