Zsh autocomplete software#

Should not be used to autostart graphical sessions, as at this point the session might contain configuration meant only for an interactive shell. Typically used to autostart command line utilities. $ZDOTDIR/.zlogin Used for executing user's commands at ending of initial progress, will be read when starting as a login shell./etc/zsh/zlogin Used for executing commands for all users at ending of initial progress, will be read when starting as a login shell.$ZDOTDIR/.zshrc Used for setting user's interactive shell configuration and executing commands, will be read when starting as an interactive shell./etc/zsh/zshrc Used for setting interactive shell configuration and executing commands for all users, will be read when starting as an interactive shell.Typically used to autostart graphical sessions and to set session-wide environment variables. $ZDOTDIR/.zprofile Used for executing user's commands at start, will be read when starting as a login shell./etc/profile This file should be sourced by all POSIX sh-compatible shells upon login: it sets up $PATH and other environment variables and application-specific ( /etc/profile.d/*.sh) settings upon login.

See warning below before wanting to remove that! Please note that on Arch Linux, by default it contains one line which sources /etc/profile.

/etc/zsh/zprofile Used for executing commands at start for all users, will be read when starting as a login shell.

When this file exists it will always be read.

$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv Used for setting user's environment variables it should not contain commands that produce output or assume the shell is attached to a TTY.

When this file exists it will always be read, this cannot be overridden.

/etc/zsh/zshenv Used for setting environment variables for all users it should not contain commands that produce output or assume the shell is attached to a TTY.

When starting, Zsh will read commands from the following files in this order by default, provided they exist.

If option GLOBAL_RCS is unset in any of the files, no global configuration files ( /etc/zsh/*) will be read after that file.

If option RCS is unset in any of the files, no configuration files will be read after that file.

If $ZDOTDIR is not set, $HOME is used instead.

This will affect the current shell, existing shells that run plain compinit, and any future shells. To rebuild the dump file, remove it and rerun compinit: rm -i $/.zcompdump &

To skip using the dump file, use compinit -D this will only affect the current shell. If you are in a situation where it does not work you may need to bypass or manually invalidate the dump file.

Zsh autocomplete software#

Presumably installing new software would change the number of such completion files (assuming that it also installed its zsh auto-complete files in the right place), so I would expect a plain compinit to work. It only invalidates the dump file when it notices a change in the number of completion files ( fpath element files that start with #compdef … or #autoload …). zcompdump, to store compiled completion functions to speed up subsequent invocations. The documentation for my version (4.3.10) says that compinit uses a cached “dump file”. If you are having problems getting “argument completion” working for the new commands then compinit is probably the command you need, however it has a caching mechanism that might be causing your problem.