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Re: separating functions, fpath, and autoload



that should be correct, the autoload will be executed when you first invoke
msg, have you tried invoking it?
Il giorno lun 13 ago 2018 alle 15:50 TJ Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> I'm in the midst of an effort to try to learn some of zsh's more powerful
> features, since I've been using zsh forever and feel like I only use 1% of
> what it can do.
>
> One of the things that I've wanted to do for awhile is separate out some of
> my more complex functions to remove them from my .zshrc file and put them
> into their own files. This should make them easier to track/change/etc and
> it makes things a lot easier to read and debug.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work right. I'm sure I'm doing
> something wrong because I don't really know what I'm doing, so I'll explain
> what I've tried, and hopefully someone can explain where I've gone wrong.
>
> I added this to my .zshrc
>
> if [ -d "$ZDOTDIR/functions" ]
> then
> fpath=($ZDOTDIR/functions $fpath)
> fi
>
> The goal there was to add '$ZDOTDIR/functions' to the functions list, which
> I think is the right way to do this.
>
> I can verify that works, I think, by using 'echo $fpath':
>
> $ echo $fpath
> /Users/luomat/Dropbox/dotfiles/zsh/completion
> /Users/luomat/Dropbox/dotfiles/zsh/functions
> /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
> /usr/share/zsh/5.3/functions
>
> /Users/luomat/Dropbox/dotfiles is my $ZDOTDIR
>
> The first file in '/Users/luomat/Dropbox/dotfiles/zsh/functions' is called
> 'msg'. For simplicity's sake, let's assume the contents of 'msg' is simply
> this:
>
> function msg  {
>
>   echo "$@"
>
> }
>
> (It's actually more complicated than that, but that's the overall idea.)
>
> I tried that, and then I tried
>
> autoload msg
>
> and I didn't get an error, but when I check 'which msg' I get this:
>
> msg () {
> # undefined
> builtin autoload -X
> }
>
> so I've messed up something along the line.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tj
>
>
> --
> TJ Luoma
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>
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