[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#622933: Bug#622933: Bug#622933: zsh: Enable completions by default, unless skip_global_compinit is set

[Daniel Shahaf]

Frank Terbeck wrote on Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:27 +0200:
> In the meantime (it's been more  than seven years), I've changed my mind
> about this.  I think a vendor should  do as little as  possible in their
> global configuration files.

Agreed, but there's more to it.  compinit is an incredibly useful
setting and it should be easy for new users to discover it.

Debian does this via /etc/zsh/newuser.zshrc.recommended.  Upstream does
this via zsh-newuser-install.  Both of these already set up compinit.

Upstream's default settings are minimal, and I don't know if that
will change, but there is interest upstream in making it easy for new
users to discover useful settings, such as the zstyle settings  in
upstream's StartupFiles/zshrc.

So, I guess what Frank and I are saying is: if you want better defaults,
work with upstream on making that happen.

Cheers,

Daniel

P.S. How about adding a mention of newuser.zshrc.recommended to
       README.Debian, so it's more discoverable?

> ¹ A case could be made that this is overstepping the boundaries already.
>   And maybe that's  true. Getting keyboard handling in  a terminal right
>   is a hard task, however. It  requires intimate knowledge about some of
>   the subtleties of how terminals work  and about the facilities zsh of-
>   fers to work with  those. It would be much better, if  zsh did some of
>   this out  of the box,  but alas it doesn't.  (The rationale is  to not
>   break existing setups — and that's a valid argument, too.)