Re: compinit problems with CygWin and Win XP

[Le Wang <lewang@xxxxxxxxx>]

What I had done for win2k was set HOME to
%USERPROFILE% from "My Computer" -> "Properties", and
this worked fine.  %USERPROFILE%="C:\Documents and
Settings\lwang".  I got the dump when i tried to
resurrect this setting in XP.  The problem seems to go
away when I use a $HOME with no spaces in it.

-lw

--- Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Nov 24,  9:04pm, Le Wang wrote:
> } Subject: Re: compinit problems with CygWin and Win
> XP
> }
> } oops I had a space in my home directory's name.
> } 
> } --- Le Wang <lewang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> } > But now when I execute:
> } > 
> } > autoload -U compinit
> } > compinit
> } > 
> } > I get this huge dump of functions:
> 
> Do you mean the actual directory had a space in its
> name, or the HOME
> variable had a space in it that it shouldn't have?
> 
> Either way, compinit should have worked properly. 
> In the case of the
> HOME variable being wrong, it should simply fail to
> write the dump file.
> 
> Can you explain why having a space in your home
> directory's name caused
> this problem?
> 
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