RE: hitting tab to complete a filename no longer working

[<covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, so I think its working better now, I got a new version of the substring search, and I deleted the dump file -- my only strange thing is that it may take a minute or two to login, but once logged in it seems to be working.

You did put me on the right track -- thanks.

-----Original Message-----
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?