On 2007-06-05 at 21:58 +0000, Zrajm C Akfohg wrote:
[ zcompdump broken ]
> Today I realized that this might have something with the global alias "cp" that
> I have. And sure enough, if I remove the line
> 
>      alias -g cp='cp -b'
> 
> from my .zshrc the problem goes away.

> the problem goes away completely. -- Until zsh generates a new (faulty)
> .zcompdump file.
> 
> Thus, zsh should generate a .zcompdump file in which the keys in all
> associative arrays are quoted, to avoid having them expanded as aliases.

Try this; fortunately, it's an easy change: the parameter expansion flag
'q' can be doubled to use single-quote quoting instead of backslash
escaping.

-Phil