RE: hitting tab to complete a filename no longer working

[<covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the ommission, I am using gentoo on linux kernel is 6.1.141.
My zsh version is 5.9.0.3-test .  I can get 5.9-r7 if that would help.

Thanks.


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From: zsh-users-request@xxxxxxx <zsh-users-request@xxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Bart Schaefer
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2025 8:21 PM
To: covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: hitting tab to complete a filename no longer working

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?