zsh behaves weird in screen

Question

Hi there,

I have zsh set up as my default shell. It works fine as long as i am not within a screen. When i start screen it looks as if some dotfiles are not loaded. For example my $PATH isn't set correctly and some directories are missing. I'm not quite sure where to start looking. Since all is fine, as long as i'm not in a screen.

My dotfiles can be viewed on github. I also use oh-my-zsh — as you will notice.

Examples for weird behavior:

• The Theme looks slightly different (blue arrow where it should be white)

• Some directories in $PATH not set:

  /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/Nils/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin VS. /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/Nils/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/bin

Answer 1

I think the problem is this:

source ~/bin/dotfiles/zsh/*
source ~/bin/dotfiles/zsh/functions/*

The source command takes only one file parameter, the rest is taken as other arguments and not loaded, which means that only the first globbed file is sourced, not all of them. This didn't even work in a normal terminal, without screen. Try something like this instead:

for x in ~/bin/dotfiles/zsh/* ~/bin/dotfiles/zsh/functions/*; source $x