Msys2-packages: zsh completion issue

[EdVanDance]

Hi guys,

it's pretty cool to have zsh in msys2, but unfortunately it does not complete hard drives.
E.g: cd /c/<TAB> does not show possible completions for /c. But it works as expected for bash.

Any ideas about fixing this?

Greetings,
Ed

CC @mashir43

[baldrianbandit]

Within Msys2, running compinit breaks the autocompletion of paths.

Assuming you are using oh-my-zsh, comment out the whole sections "Load and run compinit" and "Load all plugins" within ~/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh and restart your shell.

[elieux]

@baldrianbandit, would you know if this is a bug in MSYS2, or in zsh? If there is a way to fix this issue without disabling stuff (I assume compinit and plugins are generally useful and desirable features), maybe we can patch this and fix it for all users.

[EdVanDance]

It works without compinit. But zsh without its completion system is somehow useless :cry:

Any ideas about fixing?

[noxdk]

Hi guys,

With compinit loaded, try putting this line into your zshrc configuration file:
zstyle ':completion:*' fake-files /: '/:c'
You should be able to autocomplete on /c/whatever/file/or/directory.

If you need completion on more hard drives/partitions just add them after the 'c', eg.
zstyle ':completion:*' fake-files /: '/:c d e'

This is just a workaround and I do think that the issue should be fixed somewhere upstream. But never the less I've got autocompletion on /c, /d, etc. in zsh now.

[EdVanDance]

Wow that's awesome, it works :+1:

I added the following snippet to my zshrc to get all drives automatically added:

# complete hard drives in msys2
drives=$(mount | sed -rn 's#^[A-Z]: on /([a-z]).*#\1#p' | tr '\n' ' ')
zstyle ':completion:*' fake-files /: "/:$drives"
unset drives

Thanks a lot @heinep.

[EdVanDance]

After some further investigation I think fake-files is the only way to go.

This approach is also mentioned in From Bash to Z Shell.