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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 18:02:25 -0800
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Subject: Re: Handling of *ARGZERO options, for Zsh <= 5.3
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On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com> wrote:
> Weird how the prompting, calender, zftp and completion system all work with fpath
> and autoloading, yet `plugins' somehow need to depend on the exact location
> of files to bootstrap themselves.

The thought is that plugins might be installed in non-standard
locations and might have multiple dependent files, so it's easier if
you don't have to put them all in a previously-known fpath.