From: Fung-Chai Lim <fclim@singnet.com.sg>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell workers mailing list)
Subject: Re: Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file.
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 23:38:33 +0800 (SGT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9612011539.AA00843@fclim.singnet.com.sg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10492.199612011417@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from "Zefram" at Dec 1, 96 02:17:52 pm
In <10492.199612011417@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
on Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:17:52 +0000 (GMT)
Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> writes:
> >Having aliases and functions in the database can be useful. Remember my
> >example, putting
> > ZDBFILE=database
> > zdb -auf
> >at the top of any shell script is enough to access aliases and functions.
>
> . ~/.zshenv
>
> has much the same effect.
Sourcing the startup files does a lot of parsing. With autoloading,
the parsing is delayed until needed. Or, with binary databases,
loading the pre-built parse-tree is delayed until needed.
Regards,
fclim.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-12-01 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-30 13:31 Fung-Chai Lim
1996-11-30 16:40 ` Zefram
1996-11-30 23:16 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-12-01 12:55 ` Fung-Chai Lim
1996-12-01 14:02 ` Zefram
1996-12-01 17:41 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-12-01 18:08 ` what should compctl's look like? Richard Coleman
1996-12-01 18:54 ` Zefram
1996-12-01 18:38 ` Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file Zefram
1996-12-02 13:23 ` Fung-Chai Lim
1996-12-01 13:22 ` Fung-Chai Lim
1996-12-01 14:17 ` Zefram
1996-12-01 15:38 ` Fung-Chai Lim [this message]
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