[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#1101675: Bug#1101675: Bug#1101675: zsh: completion suddenly broken

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2025-04-01 11:28:57 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>   cjwatson at sacred-mosquito:~$ zsh
>   This is the Z Shell configuration function for new users,
>   zsh-newuser-install.
>   You are seeing this message because you have no zsh startup files
>   (the files .zshenv, .zprofile, .zshrc, .zlogin in the directory
>   ~).  This function can help you with a few settings that should
>   make your use of the shell easier.
> 
>   You can:
> 
>   (q)  Quit and do nothing.  The function will be run again next time.
> 
>   (0)  Exit, creating the file ~/.zshrc containing just a comment.
>        That will prevent this function being run again.
> 
>   (1)  Continue to the main menu.
> 
>   (2)  Populate your ~/.zshrc with the configuration recommended
>        by the system administrator and exit (you will need to edit
>        the file by hand, if so desired).
> 
>   --- Type one of the keys in parentheses --- 2
>   /home/cjwatson/.zshrc:15: scalar parameter HISTFILE created globally in function zsh-newuser-install

You chose 2, and /usr/share/zsh/functions/Newuser/zsh-newuser-install
does

    (2)
    cp /etc/zsh/newuser.zshrc.recommended $zd/.zshrc
    source $zd/.zshrc
    return 0

So you'll get completion settings that may interfere with the
testcase.

I suggest that you run the test under "zsh -f" (as suggested
in my bug report) instead of "zsh", so that init files (except
/etc/zsh/zshenv) are not read.

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