Re: zmodload zmv ?

[Dennis Haney <davh@xxxxxxx>]

Nick Croft wrote:

> zmv looks to be a very handy utility. With Debian, it's located
> under /usr/share/zsh/4.0.4/functions/Misc  .
>
> I've tried starting it with zmodload zmv - nothing.
>
> I've moved, chowned, and chmodded it to a local fpath.
>
> What's the trick? All the googling points to the same paragraph being
> quoted. The source contains a pretty good description of its uses but no
> hint as to startup.
>
> It tries to do something if I explicitly quote the path in the command
> line. But emulating the example produced the following
>
>        nicko@work ~/tmp % ../.myfns/zmv '(*).bmp '$1.BMP'
>        ../.myfns/zmv: emulate: command not found
>        ../.myfns/zmv: local can only be used in a function
>        ../.myfns/zmv: typeset: unknown option: `-A'
>        ../.myfns/zmv: integer: command not found
>        ../.myfns/zmv: setopt: command not found
>
> I imagine those calls would work without problems if it could be loaded 
> with zmodload.
>
> Nick
I could recommend this line in your startup:
for func in $^fpath.zwc(N-.r:); autoload -U -w $func

then all functions are loaded at startup at little cost.

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Dennis
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