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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@sni.de>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>,
	<zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: RE: PATCH: Re: Completion and global aliases
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:05:38 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000e01beb29a$4bf72b70$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <990609164946.ZM32335@candle.brasslantern.com>

>
> On Jun 9, 11:01am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> } Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Completion and global aliases
> }
> } manual could provide a simple one-line suggestion, though, for
> anyone not
> } wanting to run compinstall  --- possibly the manual could be altered to
> } contain the real location of compinit, but that will require
> more remaking
>
> I don't think remaking is a big issue, but I've always thought it
> was silly
> to have manual pages attempt to reflect local install paths.
> There's always
> somebody who shuffles things around after the fact or tries to
> share manual
> pages over NFS (or over the web!), rendering compile-time
> patching useless.
>

Yes. It is exactly for this reason I keep suggesting a *builtin* (to the
extent) way to initalize completion. I do not like the idea to rewrite rc
files every time directory layout changes for whatever reason. And if I have
single home dir, and zsh is installed in different locations on every
system - maintaining rc becomes a nightmare.

/andrej


  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-09 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-09  8:53 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-06-09  9:17 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1999-06-09  9:01   ` Peter Stephenson
1999-06-09 16:49     ` Bart Schaefer
1999-06-09 17:05       ` Andrej Borsenkow [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-06-09  2:43 Wayne Davison
1999-06-09  6:15 ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer
1999-06-09  7:48   ` Peter Stephenson
1999-06-09 15:40     ` Bart Schaefer

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