From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: "Kalmár Gergely" <kgregory89@gmail.com>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: --init-file option
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:34:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpTEL7cQJppNzxO8GPUagS=nu-SN4aYH=ZULEMUtSV8aA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7boGStuymRmwSR55yCys8=qBVASCzO9ks+RvoZFgv7pPQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 9:29 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> Create a directory "virtualenv" with the appropriate configuration in
> virtualenv/{.zshenv,.zshrc,.zprofile,.zlogin} and use
> env ZDOTDIR=virtualenv zsh ...
>
> most likely you want virtualenv/.zshrc to be "source $HOME/.zshrc ;
> source xxx" and everything else to merely source the corresponding
> $HOME file.
>
> Adjust for absolute paths as needed. A bit of extra work required if
> you want to preserve an existing $ZDOTDIR before replacing it.
zshi essentially automates this process. It also takes some care of
restoring `ZDOTDIR` before sourcing the real user rc files and
checking `[[ -o rcs ]]` afterwards. There is still one thing that
breaks when using zshi (or doing the same thing manually): global rc
files see the wrong `ZDOTDIR`.
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-13 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 10:57 Kalmár Gergely
2023-02-13 11:24 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-02-13 13:43 ` Kalmár Gergely
2023-02-13 20:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-13 20:34 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2023-02-13 20:59 ` Kalmár Gergely
2023-02-13 21:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-14 10:18 ` Kalmár Gergely
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