From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10968 invoked from network); 9 Jun 1999 16:50:10 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Jun 1999 16:50:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 1916 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 1999 16:49:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6559 Received: (qmail 1909 invoked from network); 9 Jun 1999 16:49:51 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990609164946.ZM32335@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:49:46 +0000 In-Reply-To: <9906090901.AA27957@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson "Re: PATCH: Re: Completion and global aliases" (Jun 9, 11:01am) References: <9906090901.AA27957@ibmth.df.unipi.it> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Completion and global aliases MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. } (Autoloading everything in $fpath could conflict with Bart's `autoload -U' } suggestion --- although I presume that first autoloading without -U, then } with, will add the NOALIASES flag.) Yes, that works. } This complicates installation, } however, and Oliver was suggesting he'd prefer the directory structure } retained. I haven't worked out a simple way of doing all this. Just a random thought ... the installation process has just copied a zsh binary into place, right? So you can write a zsh function to install the rest of the zsh functions, and feed it to the zsh that you just built ... (Except that doesn't work when cross-compiling, sigh.) -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com