Tab Completion of filenames/dirs has stopped working.

Tab Completion of filenames/dirs has stopped working.

[zzapper]

Hi Y'All

I upgraded to latest version a few days ago. All seemed fine. But without me being aware of changing
my setup; suddenly when I launch a new shell, the screen fills with a list of the prototypes of all
my functions/scripts (but no apparent error message). All seems however fine except that the
absolutely essential tab completion no longer functions (tab apparently ignored)

Also I've noticed that I don't need to reload changed scripts?

Where start looky?

$ zsh --version
zsh 4.2.6 (i686-pc-cygwin)

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Re: Tab Completion of filenames/dirs has stopped working.

[Peter Stephenson]

zzapper wrote:
> Where start looky?

Start the shell with the -x option and look at the output.  If you have
a working and a non-working version compare the two.

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Re: Tab Completion of filenames/dirs has stopped working.

[zzapper]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:47:29 +0000,  wrote:

>zzapper wrote:
>> Where start looky?
>
>Start the shell with the -x option and look at the output.  If you have
>a working and a non-working version compare the two.
PWS
It's solved if I comment out

compinit -i

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Re: Tab Completion of filenames/dirs has stopped working.

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 12,  1:02pm, zzapper wrote:
}
} It's solved if I comment out
} 
} compinit -i

The -i flag tell compinit to check for files or directories that might
be writable by a malicious third party, and to ignore them.  It also
warns you about which files/directories it is ignoring.

So apparently when your latest version was installed, permissions or
file ownership on the completion directories in $fpath were left in an
insecure state.

Re: Tab Completion of filenames/dirs has stopped working.

[Peter A. Castro]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, zzapper wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:47:29 +0000,  wrote:
>
>> zzapper wrote:
>>> Where start looky?
>>
>> Start the shell with the -x option and look at the output.  If you have
>> a working and a non-working version compare the two.
> PWS
> It's solved if I comment out
>
> compinit -i

That doesn't quite make sense.  Are you running the shell with -x or -v?

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