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Re: autoload



On 09/14/2015 08:48 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Sep 14,  7:48pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} One more thing if you would Bart: get me started with combining zcompile
} with autoload as you mentioned.  It sounds like a good idea but I can't
} find anything on it.
Thanks, I'll throw myself at it. This sounds like very satisfying stuff for philosophical reasons--I prefer directness over convenience most of the time and an explicit statement of where functions actually are turns my crank. That's the reason I liked:

   autoload /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/n-*(N-.:t)

... because it's explicit. Alas it turns out to be disharmonious with the nature of the
thing, like teaching a cat to fetch.


Finally, for Ray, you can for example replace your entire $fpath with
a single ZWC file:

Marvelous:

6 HP-w5--5-Debian1 /aWorking/Zsh 2$ echo $fpath
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions /usr/share/zsh/vendor-functions /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions /usr/share/zsh/functions/Calendar /usr/share/zsh/functions/Chpwd /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/AIX /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/BSD /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Base /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Cygwin /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Darwin /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Debian /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Linux /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Mandriva /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Redhat /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Solaris /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Unix /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/X /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/Zsh /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/openSUSE /usr/share/zsh/functions/Exceptions /usr/share/zsh/functions/MIME /usr/share/zsh/functions/Misc /usr/share/zsh/functions/Newuser /usr/share/zsh/functions/Prompts /usr/share/zsh/functions/TCP /usr/share/zsh/functions/VCS_Info /usr/share/zsh/functions/VCS_Info/Backends /usr/share/zsh/functions/Zftp /usr/share/zsh/functions/Zle

... is deeply disturbing on principal, I don't want my shell searching the world for my functions, I want it to *know* where they are and $fpath is a study in obfuscation. It is information that subtracts from knowledge.


     # Assume starting here with the default $fpath
     zsh_default_functions=~/.zsh-default-functions.zwc
     if ! zcompile -t $zsh_default_functions >&/dev/null
     then
       # File is missing or out of date.  Rebuild it.
       # Removes the file if any function cannot be compiled.
       zcompile $zsh_default_functions $^fpath/*(N.:A)
     fi
     if [[ -f $zsh_default_functions ]]
     then
       fpath=( $zsh_default_functions )
       autoload -w $zsh_default_functions
     fi


Deep magic ...
Arigato sensei



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