Disable persistent dirstack for shells older then 4.2.0

We use the (u) flag when saving, which is not available in these older
versions of zsh. We do not intent to keep this disabled forever; just
until we got a properly working solution for older shells.

diff --git a/etc/zsh/zshrc b/etc/zsh/zshrc
index b864606..0a15eb2 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/zsh/zshrc
+++ b/etc/zsh/zshrc
@@ -928,15 +928,21 @@ isgrmlcd && SAVEHIST=1000 || SAVEHIST=10000 # useful for setopt append_history
 
 # dirstack handling {{{
 
+# TODO: the is42 tests are in place, because (u) requires at least 4.2.0
+#       of zsh. We also disable loading potentielly old .zdir files when
+#       starting a pre-4.2.0 zsh.
+#       Implementing a workaround-(u) for older shells is the obvious
+#       solution here, if we want this for all supported shells.
+
 DIRSTACKSIZE=20
-if [[ -f ~/.zdirs ]] && [[ ${#dirstack[*]} -eq 0 ]] ; then
+if is42 && [[ -f ~/.zdirs ]] && [[ ${#dirstack[*]} -eq 0 ]] ; then
     dirstack=( ${(f)"$(< ~/.zdirs)"} )
     # "cd -" won't work after login by just setting $OLDPWD, so
     [[ -d $dirstack[0] ]] && cd $dirstack[0] && cd $OLDPWD
 fi
 
 chpwd() {
-    builtin print -l ${(u)dirstack} >! ~/.zdirs
+    is42 && builtin print -l ${(u)dirstack} >! ~/.zdirs
 }
 
 # }}}