3.1.9 and completion: "command not found: compgen"

3.1.9 and completion: "command not found: compgen"

[Roland Jesse]

Without digging into it:

I just upgraded from 3.1.6 to 3.1.9 (making use of the FreeBSD's ports
collection). Initializing completion with:

% autoload -U compinit
% compinstall

puts the following into my .zshrc:

# The following lines were added by compinstall
_compdir=/usr/local/share/zsh/functions
[[ -z $fpath[(r)$_compdir] ]] && fpath=($fpath $_compdir)
autoload -U compinit
compinit
compconf completer=_complete:_correct:_approximate
# End of lines added by compinstall

Trying it out

% cd <TAB>
compgen:12: no such builtin: compgen

Did the completion initialization change without me noticing?

        Roland

Re: 3.1.9 and completion: "command not found: compgen"

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 24,  7:04pm, Roland Jesse wrote:
} Subject: 3.1.9 and completion: "command not found: compgen"
}
} # The following lines were added by compinstall
} _compdir=/usr/local/share/zsh/functions
} [[ -z $fpath[(r)$_compdir] ]] && fpath=($fpath $_compdir)
} autoload -U compinit
} compinit
} compconf completer=_complete:_correct:_approximate
} # End of lines added by compinstall

compconf has been obsolete for a while now, and was removed just after
the 3.1.9 release (i.e. it won't be in 4.0).  I rather suspect that you
are running the new 3.1.9 binary but you still have the old 3.1.6 set
of completion system functions; this won't work at all.

} Did the completion initialization change without me noticing?

It changed a whole lot, beginning last November, and has gone through
several sweeping changes since then.  "autoload -U compinit; compinit"
is about the only thing that remained constant.

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