From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11180 invoked from network); 9 Jun 1999 17:06:53 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Jun 1999 17:06:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 3841 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 1999 17:06:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6560 Received: (qmail 3793 invoked from network); 9 Jun 1999 17:06:34 -0000 From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Bart Schaefer" , Subject: RE: PATCH: Re: Completion and global aliases Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:05:38 +0400 Message-ID: <000e01beb29a$4bf72b70$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <990609164946.ZM32335@candle.brasslantern.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > > 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