Problem with Named Dirs & GNU Screen

[Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been trying to figure out the named dirs issue I wrote about 
several weeks ago, but I'm still having problems. The situation is 
this: I would like to create a named dir "palmfiles" expanding to 
"~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron Davies/Files to Install". To this end, I 
have in my .zprofile the following line:

export palmfiles=~/Documents/Palm/Users/Aaron\ Davies/Files\ to\ Install

and in my .zshrc:

setopt AUTO_NAME_DIRS

My goal, incidentally, is to have ~palmfiles expandable immediately 
upon shell startup (ie, typing "~palm<TAB>" should work, not beep). In 
this I am successful, as long as I'm in zsh directly. However, I prefer 
to run all my consoles within GNU screen, and there it breaks down. 
~palmfiles is still a valid named dir, but it will not expand until 
it's been used once. I've tried the following: putting the setopt in my 
zprofile, putting ": palmfiles" in my zprofile, putting ": palmfiles" 
in my zshrc. None of them worked.

Does anyone have any other ideas?
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