Somewhere between modules-bltn and zmodload ....

Somewhere between modules-bltn and zmodload ....

[Bart Schaefer]

Maybe this is possible and I've just missed it.

Why is there no compile-time option equivalent to runtime "zmodload -a ..."?

I'd like to define a module that is not linked into the binary, and that
gets autoloaded if one of the builtins etc. it defines is referenced, but
that does not require that any rc-file execute any zmodload commands.

(Yes, this is the message forward-referenced in zsh-workers/6162.)

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Re: Somewhere between modules-bltn and zmodload ....

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> Maybe this is possible and I've just missed it.
> 
> Why is there no compile-time option equivalent to runtime "zmodload -a ..."?
> 
> I'd like to define a module that is not linked into the binary, and that
> gets autoloaded if one of the builtins etc. it defines is referenced, but
> that does not require that any rc-file execute any zmodload commands.

Just add it to xmods.conf. (I don't understand this name, btw.)

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de

Re: Somewhere between modules-bltn and zmodload ....

[Bart Schaefer]

On Apr 30, 10:56am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: Somewhere between modules-bltn and zmodload ....
}
} > Maybe this is possible and I've just missed it.
} > 
} > Why is there no compile-time option equivalent to runtime "zmodload -a ..."?
} 
} Just add it to xmods.conf.

Ah, OK ... and duh.

} (I don't understand this name, btw.)

I think the x is for "extension."  (But why isn't modules-bltn called
"bmods.conf" or something?  Maybe we should clean all this up, too.)

Here's another question:

zagzig% zmodload -ac  
post after (compctl)
post between (compctl)
post suffix (compctl)
post prefix (compctl)
zagzig% zmodload -uc compctl after
zmodload: compctl: no such condition
zagzig% zmodload -ac
post between (compctl)
post suffix (compctl)
post prefix (compctl)
zagzig% zmodload -uc compctl between || echo Failed
zmodload: compctl: no such condition
Failed
zagzig% zmodload -ac
post suffix (compctl)
post prefix (compctl)

Is is really the right behavior that zmodload go on and unload the rest
of the conditions listed on the command line after one has failed?  Or
should it stop when it gets to a failure?  I suppose the analogy is to
"rm", but I was a bit surprised by it.

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Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
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Re: Somewhere between modules-bltn and zmodload ....

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> [ about xmods.conf ]
> 
> I think the x is for "extension."  (But why isn't modules-bltn called
> "bmods.conf" or something?  Maybe we should clean all this up, too.)

Yes, I think we shoudl. I'm still sometimes guessing which file I have 
to fiddle with to get what I want. (And I have to guess the name and
which vowels are there and which aren't...)

> Is is really the right behavior that zmodload go on and unload the rest
> of the conditions listed on the command line after one has failed?  Or
> should it stop when it gets to a failure?  I suppose the analogy is to
> "rm", but I was a bit surprised by it.

[It's the same for removing the other autoloaded things, btw.]

I think I like it this way, but then I have used this only when
hacking the module code.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de