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Re: Functions, sourcing and compinit: function definition file not found.

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Functions, sourcing and compinit: function definition file not found.
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:17:44 +0100
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Nick Stenning wrote:
>    /home/borior/.zshrc:106: compinit: function definition file not found
> 
> The really odd part of this story comes when I tell you that
> "source ${zdotdir}/.zshrc" works absolutely fine from the shell. No
> error from compinit whatsoever.

Look at what's happening to the variable fpath (equivalently FPATH)
while your code is running; simply "print $fpath" at occasional points
should be enough.  I would guess somewhere it's being reset and only
later restored to what you expect.

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