Re: hitting tab to complete a filename no longer working

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:21:14 -0700

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM John Covici <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi.   When I use zsh

I don't see where you've identified your operating system or zsh
version?  I've missed that in a couple of other messages lately so I
tried to look carefully this time.

> to complete something, usually a file name, I get

Your first clue is likely this:

_approximate:53: command not found: _shadow

The _shadow utility was added after the zsh-5.9 release and started to
be used in _approximate several months later.  Perhaps you have a mix
of completion functions from a couple of different versions of the
shell?  Or perhaps you just need to rebuild your ~/.zcompdump file?