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On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Vikas Mishra wrote:

Greetings, Vikas,

> 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.

I think you're going to have to give me some examples of what completion
you are attempting.  I still can't make this fail no matter what I try.
Your .zcompdump looks fine to me and if I strip my config to be just
your example (uncommented, of course) I can't make it fail.

> Regards,
> Vikas
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Vikas Mishra <vikasm AT vikasmishra DOT org> wrote:
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> 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
>>
>

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
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