problems with #compdef

problems with #compdef

[Adam Spiers]

I'm having problems getting zsh to use a custom-written completion
function.  The function is called _pd, definitely lives somewhere in
my $fpath, definitely gets autoloaded during startup, and has

  #compdef pd

as its first line.  Yet $_comps[pd] is undefined, and pressing TAB
after `pd ' results in standard file completion.  What have I missed?

Re: problems with #compdef

[Bart Schaefer]

On Aug 15,  4:15pm, Adam Spiers wrote:
}
} Yet $_comps[pd] is undefined, and pressing TAB after `pd ' results in
} standard file completion. What have I missed?

Are you possibly using "compinit -C"?  Did you remove your .zcompdump file
so it can be rebuilt?

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Re: problems with #compdef

[Adam Spiers]

Bart Schaefer (schaefer@brasslantern.com) wrote:
> On Aug 15,  4:15pm, Adam Spiers wrote:
> }
> } Yet $_comps[pd] is undefined, and pressing TAB after `pd ' results in
> } standard file completion. What have I missed?
> 
> Are you possibly using "compinit -C"?

Yes, I am.  Well spotted :-)

> Did you remove your .zcompdump file so it can be rebuilt?

Well I ran compdump, which I thought was equivalent, but evidently
not, because removing it does indeed work.  Thanks a lot.  So why
isn't compdump sufficient?