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computer detective work
My phone was slow, so I rebooted it. And logged in again to my shell server. And got an error message about now finding 'zsh-syntax-highlighting/' I hadn't seen before. And my shell didn't have highlighting. I connected to the server's screen session and confirmed that yes, old shells have highlighting. Something's definitely wrong!
'ls', and I find 'zsh-syntnax/' [sic]. WTF? Why is that? Did something go horribly wrong with my last OS upgrade? Have I been hacked and pranked?
Fortunately I keep a really deep shell history, and found
'mv zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-syntnax' from 9 days ago.
That answers how, but not who or why; I don't remember doing that!
But the history provides context, several other 'mv' commands renaming long filenames to shorter ones. Aha, I do remember doing that! I wanted 'ls' output to fit into more columns. So I did that to this directory without considering that some part of my shell configuration was actually using it. Whoops! And somewhat excusable, once my configuration is set up I don't have to twiddle with it much, I have aspects that are 25+ years old yet contributing positively to my experience.
One quick rename and edit of .zshrc to use the new name, and all is well again.
'ls', and I find 'zsh-syntnax/' [sic]. WTF? Why is that? Did something go horribly wrong with my last OS upgrade? Have I been hacked and pranked?
Fortunately I keep a really deep shell history, and found
'mv zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-syntnax' from 9 days ago.
That answers how, but not who or why; I don't remember doing that!
But the history provides context, several other 'mv' commands renaming long filenames to shorter ones. Aha, I do remember doing that! I wanted 'ls' output to fit into more columns. So I did that to this directory without considering that some part of my shell configuration was actually using it. Whoops! And somewhat excusable, once my configuration is set up I don't have to twiddle with it much, I have aspects that are 25+ years old yet contributing positively to my experience.
One quick rename and edit of .zshrc to use the new name, and all is well again.
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