RE: PATCH: Re: Completion and global aliases

["Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx>]

>
> On Jun 9, 11:01am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> } Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Completion and global aliases
> }
> } manual could provide a simple one-line suggestion, though, for
> anyone not
> } wanting to run compinstall  --- possibly the manual could be altered to
> } contain the real location of compinit, but that will require
> more remaking
>
> I don't think remaking is a big issue, but I've always thought it
> was silly
> to have manual pages attempt to reflect local install paths.
> There's always
> somebody who shuffles things around after the fact or tries to
> share manual
> pages over NFS (or over the web!), rendering compile-time
> patching useless.
>

Yes. It is exactly for this reason I keep suggesting a *builtin* (to the
extent) way to initalize completion. I do not like the idea to rewrite rc
files every time directory layout changes for whatever reason. And if I have
single home dir, and zsh is installed in different locations on every
system - maintaining rc becomes a nightmare.

/andrej