Re: Include XDG_DATA_DIRS/share/zsh/site-functions in FPATH by default?

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025, at 6:23 PM, Jade Lovelace wrote:
> This is superfluous in bash which uses XDG_DATA_DIRS by default:
> https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/51b009f6a653c66454816e9bc869c40f61329764/README.md?plain=1#L362-L372
> and 
> https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/51b009f6a653c66454816e9bc869c40f61329764/bash_completion#L3306-L3309.

No, bash does not use XDG.  The "bash-completion" project is
a third-party effort that is not affiliated with the GNU bash
project.

> I am wondering if zsh has considered doing this by default as well, as
> it makes zsh integrate cleanly with other tooling that uses
> XDG_DATA_DIRS without specially needing to consider adding zsh
> specific code to handle FPATH.

This is not about fpath, but it is representative of the developers'
general position on XDG support.

https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2024/msg00012.html

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