Zsh Mailing List Archive
Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author

Re: Forgetting about compinit with manual alteration of _comps

On 10 February 2016 at 10:23, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> However, I'm not sure making a plugin loadable _either before or after_
> compinit is a good idea.  It may be simpler for plugin authors to expect
> to be loaded in one circumstance (say, after compinit) and ensure they
> emit a clear error message in the other circumstance (say, before
> compinit), than to eternally support two codepaths.

All this is a frustration about "compinit does everything". If there
was "compinit" and "compinit_examine_fpath", it would be all much
simpler. User would init completion at beginning of .zshrc, which is a
natural location for "init" things, and then "compinit_examine_fpath"
at end, which is also natural. All this resolved by providing
compdef() stub gathering compdef calls and allowing to replay them
after compinit placed at bottom of .zshrc.

Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski
Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author