Re: zsh-4.0.1-pre4 : manpath and MANPATH

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Richard Curnow wrote:
> zshparam.1 says that setting manpath will change MANPATH and vice versa.
> If I change MANPATH, I don't see manpath getting changed.

You haven't unset that in your .zshenv too, have you?  In that case it will
(temporarily) lose its special connection to $manpath.  This seems to be a
bug, because it happens even if $manpath is never unset.

There's a workaround (apart from the obvious one of not unsetting it in the
first place):  if you do

manpath=(${(s.:.)MANPATH})

(actually if you set $manpath to anything, but this has the side effect of
setting it to the right value) just once, they will keep track again
thereafter.

I may, or may not, get round to looking at both these bugs this weekend.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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