[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#535851: zsh: completion does not work anymore with some specific applications

[Joerg Ebertz]

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:17:34 +0200 Sylvain Chevillard
<sylvain.chevillard at ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Did you try removing your .zcompdump file and restarting zsh?
> 
> 
> I just tried: at first restart, zsh regenerates exactly the same
> .zcompdump and of course, the problem remains unsolved.
> 
> By the way, I forgot to say that I observed the problem also with
> latex/pdflatex:
> 
> latex <tab>
> does not propose any completion.

I had similar problems, for example the completion of vcsh didn't work
for me. These problems were caused by a faulty $FPATH.  It contained
the path "/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions" (with "local"), so the
functions in "/usr/share/zsh/site-functions" (without "local") were not
found.  Adding "/usr/share/zsh/site-functions" to $FPATH solved the
problem.

This does not explain all the effects that I have seen: On Bookworm
completion is working in spite of the fact that $FPATH is faulty as
well. Nor does it explain some of the effects described here.

I do not know whether this is the same problem, but this information
might help – and $FPATH should be fixed.

Joerg Ebertz