How to properly turbo eval hooks for externally installed packages

[paw-lu]

I have some tools that have either completions or other integrations that are called via eval and some command that generates the code.

For example let's look at theacodes/nox. It's installed via another method (pipx). And for completion we must call eval "$(register-python-argcomplete nox)". This command must be called after autoload -U bashcompinit; bashcompinit;.

Currently implimented:

zinit wait lucid light-mode for \
    if"builtin command -v nox > /dev/null 2>&1" \
        atinit"autoload -U bashcompinit; bashcompinit;" \
            is-snippet $HOME/rc_files/nox.zsh \
    ...

Where nox.zsh simply contains eval "$(register-python-argcomplete nox)". This works as expected.

However this is not efficient, as register-python-argcomplete must be run each time to generate the code.

There's a really good direnv example that's really similar to my problem, but assumes you're using zinit to compile.

Trying to sloppily convert this, I try:

zinit wait lucid light-mode for \
    if"builtin command -v nox > /dev/null 2>&1" \
        atclone"register-python-argcomplete nox > zhook.zsh" \
            atpull'%atclone' \
                src"zhook.zsh" \
                    atinit"autoload -U bashcompinit; bashcompinit;" \
                        is-snippet $HOME/rc_files/nox.zsh \
    ...

1. I don't think this works, as it doesn't seem what I put into zhook is actually executing
2. the snippet is actually useleess now, since the actuall command is (meant) to run on atclone/atpull/src. Is there a way to simply run a command in the turbo framework without a snippet or package?

[paw-lu]

Is there a way to simply run a command in the turbo framework without a snippet or package?

It seems this was partially answered by the existence of zdharma-continuum/null, which implies a "package" is always needed here.

[pschmitt]

Here's something I usually do for pip(x) packages:

zinit wait lucid light-mode as"null" nocompile \
  atclone"pipx install nox; register-python-argcomplete nox > zhook.zsh" \
  atpull"pipx update nox; rm -f zhook.zsh; register-python-argcomplete nox > zhook.zsh" \
  atdelete"pipx uninstall nox" \
  atload"autoload bashcompinit && bashcompinit && source zhook.zsh" \
for theacodes/nox

[paw-lu]

This is a useful example.

for theacodes/nox

For my understanding, in this case is this line even doing anything?

[pschmitt]

Yes, it will fetch the source repo. This allows running the atpull commands when there's a new commit in that repo. This obviously only makes sense if you explicitly want to track the main branch though. Here it may result in the atpull ice being run too often (not every commit will lead to a new pypi release). If there was a way to make pipx update nox return 1 instead of 0 if there is no update then you could at least skip the generation of the zhook.zsh file.
It's not perfect, yet ;)

[pschmitt]

Oh! There's https://github.com/NICHOLAS85/z-a-eval that's worth a try as well :)

[paw-lu]

didn't even know about this!
seems this is a less hacky syntax since you don't have to redirect to a file.

appreciate all the help (and maintainting the fork)!

[pschmitt]

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