Zimfw: vim completion shows errors

[antoineco]

• Zim commit ref: b55ed8ad
• gist of .zimrc: (default)
• Zsh version: 5.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0)
• gist of .zshrc:

#
# User configuration sourced by interactive shells
#

# Source zim
if [[ -s ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zim/init.zsh ]]; then
  source ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zim/init.zsh
fi

export EDITOR='vim'
export VISUAL='vim'

• $(uname -mosr): x86_64 Darwin 16.1.0

Description

Instead of completing the path, the autocompletion generates the following error after typing the "vim" or "nvim" word:

[me@myhost ~]$ vim Doc...
_arguments:451: _vim_files: function definition file not found
_arguments:451: _vim_files: function definition file not found

Steps to reproduce

Type "vim (space) (Tab)" anywhere.

Images or other information

• Does not happen after typing just "vi"
• The "steeef" prompt mutes these errors

[Plloi]

Try removing ~/.zcompdump and ~/.zcompdump.zwc then restart your shell

[Eriner]

@Plloi's suggestion is a good one. _vim_files is not a function provided by the completion module. Also, a quick search of your issue immediately revealed the same solution @Plloi has proposed.

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/518

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/280622/zsh-fails-at-path-completition-when-command-is-vim#280626

In the future, I recommend searching for the issue specifically. To find the link I posted above, my search query was:

"_vim_files" zsh

[Eriner]

Oh, I almost forgot! After doing that, I suggest you run source .zlogin (from a new zsh shell) to re-bytecompile your .zcompdump file.

[antoineco]

I'm sorry @Eriner and @Plloi, believe me I really did delete my .zcompdump file before opening that issue. In the meantime I moved some .z* files around and created some symlinks, which somehow made the issue appear again and made me believe the behaviour was consistent.

I should have deleted .zcompdump again after playing around with my .z* files, which indeed solved the problem. Thanks for pointing that out guys!