Re: Zsh not completing redirection anymore

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Sohron Viholainen <lokki1977@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you :)
>
> after disabling   ~/.zsh/zshrc.d/121_environment.completions.additional.zsh redirection worked right. I looked inside the file and decided to comment out this part in the beginning of the file, as app completion has never worked after all:
> ----BEGIN----
>
>     #######################################################
>     ####  Make the "open -a" completion work faster  ######
>     #######################################################
>
>     # This is to make the "open -a" command completion snappier.
>     # touching the file upon shell startup will trigger various launchd items
>     # that in turn will ensure completions are up to date.  We run the command once
>     # now to establish a short-term SpotLight cache.
>
>     if [[ -f /Library/LaunchAgents/zsh.refresh.completion.plist  || \
>               -f /Library/LaunchAgents/zsh.refresh.completion.plist  ]];then


??  That's pretty strange on the face of it.  Why is it doing exactly
the same test on the same file twice in the same [[ ]] expression?

>                         touch ~/.zsh/zrefresh 2>/dev/null
>                         chmod 777 ~/.zsh/zrefresh  2>/dev/null

I don't see a reference to this zrefresh file anywhere else in *this*
file (looked up on the git repository), so I suspect the real problem
is going to occur somewhere later in the process where the
timestamp/existence of the zrefresh file is examined.

>         fi
>
>         # This seems to work better:
>
>         if [[ -x /usr/bin/mdfind ]];then
>             ( mdfind -onlyin /Applications -onlyin /Developer \
>               "kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.application-*'" >| \
>             /dev/null 2>&1 & ; );
>         fi

This part had better be irrelevant, it doesn't do anything (all output
thrown away) except allow Spotlight to load its internal caches.

What might be interesting is to see a diff of _complete_debug output
in the broken case and the working case, that might show what the
effect of the zrefresh file is.