Any suggestions anyone? I would really like to have completion in my zsh shells. Incidentally I installed from source in cygwin and still have the same issue. So I don't believe it is a package issue. I think it may be a bigger issue with my cygwin environment.
Regards, Vikas On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Vikas Mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > Thanks for your response. > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Peter A. Castro <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Vikas Mishra wrote: >> >> The ultimate cause of this particular problem was permissions on the >> "functions" directories not being to zsh's liking (ie: having write >> permission for group or other). This was a build error on my part for >> 4.3.11-1, which was corrected in 4.3.11-2. >> (Make sure you have installed 4.3.11-2, btw :-) > > I just installed this cygwin installation today and I think 4.3.11-2 > was release in early January so I believe I do have the latest > version. > >> >> With the permissions wrong, compinit fails to load any of the completion >> functions and ends up creating a very, very abbreviated .zcompdump file >> (less than 1k in size, versus > 30k size). > > In my case, the size of zcompdump was 32KB (I had forgotten to mention > it the first time around). I have attached the zcompdump file so that > you can see if this is correct or not. > >> You can tell this by looking at the .zcompdump and if it things like >> _comps() are mostly empty, then you are hitting the problem. >> >> Verify that you .zcompdump has move that a few functions in it and verify >> the permissions on all directories under /usr/share/zsh/4.3.11 are 755 >> (rwxr-xr-x) and that all files under those directories are 644 >> (rw-r--r--). > > I rechecked the permissions on the directories and they were correct. > I have also attached the smallest version of my zshrc which still has > a problem - basically this is just "autoload -U compinit && compinit". > > I installed version 4.3.10 (with the Cygwin installer and have the > same problem). Let me know if any more info will help. > > Regards, > Vikas > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
