Re: Include XDG_DATA_DIRS/share/zsh/site-functions in FPATH by default?
Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025, at 6:23 PM, Jade Lovelace wrote: > This is superfluous in bash which uses XDG_DATA_DIRS by default: > https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/51b009f6a653c66454816e9bc869c40f61329764/README.md?plain=1#L362-L372 > and > https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/51b009f6a653c66454816e9bc869c40f61329764/bash_completion#L3306-L3309. No, bash does not use XDG. The "bash-completion" project is a third-party effort that is not affiliated with the GNU bash project. > I am wondering if zsh has considered doing this by default as well, as > it makes zsh integrate cleanly with other tooling that uses > XDG_DATA_DIRS without specially needing to consider adding zsh > specific code to handle FPATH. This is not about fpath, but it is representative of the developers' general position on XDG support. https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2024/msg00012.html -- vq