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• zshbuiltins
  • autoload and fpath
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zshbuiltins

autoload and fpath

• fpath is a array of directories which contain function files to be autoloaded

print -l $fpath

/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/local/Cellar/zsh/5.4.2_3/share/zsh/functions

• What autoload does is to mark that name as being a function rather than an external program.
• The function has to be in a file on its own, with the filename the same as the function name.
• In general, you should be using autoload -Uz <filename>

autoload -Uz compinit
#         │└─ usual alias expansion during reading will be suppressed
#         └── force use zsh-style autoload not KSH

If you want to use compinit, you should call autoload for it before using it, otherwise the name compinit will be simply an unknown command. This goes a common idiom as following:

autoload -Uz compinit && compinit

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