Re: PATCH: Re: Really wierd problems with autoload

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 30,  1:32pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: PATCH: Re: Really wierd problems with autoload
}
} Bart Schaefer wrote:
} 
} > alias run-help zman
}                ^^^
} `alias run-help=zman', right?

You're talkng to the original CSH_JUNKIE, Sven.  I have a shell function
named `alias' that pastes in the `=' for me and then calls the builtin.  I
often forget about that when cutting snippets for posting.
 
} > run-help:9: run-help: function definition file not found
} > 
} > and further by the time
} > zman finishes the function run-help IS correctly loaded, it just for some
} > reason won't execute.  Subsequent uses of ESC-h execute the new run-help.
} 
} And it is really weird? And a problem? With FPATH=$f you say it should 
} search the directory .../run-help

D'oh!  How silly ... but that still doesn't explain how the function got
loaded in the first place!  Because it *is* loaded by the end of zman,
it just didn't *execute* during zman.  If it were just not loaded at all,
I'd be less mystified.

} FPATH=$f:h, I think. Or maybe everybody thinks we should also check if 
} the elements of $fpath are the names of the funtions searched?

No, no, it was just me making a typo when updating the function from its
form for a previous version of zsh.  That's why "it always worked before."

But fixing $f:h doesn't have any effect on the rest of the wierd exported
FPATH behavior that I described.

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