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**bcomnes** · December 6, 2023, 11:23pm

I’ve had zsh set up on my Mac since the default switch over a while back. The subl command used to work fine, where I could tab-complete filenames I want to open in the editor.

A few months ago, I noticed that tab completion is broken.

When I try to tab complete a filename with the subl command I get this output:

√ bret.io % subl RE
(eval):1: _subl: function definition file not found

Here are my relevant dot files that I use to set up zsh completions on my system.

github.com

bcomnes/.dotfiles/blob/90cd8bd0cad9a465049df125162fa911cb71c935/configs/bashrc.d/zsh.sh#L1-L6


# https://scriptingosx.com/2019/07/moving-to-zsh-part-5-completions/
# zsh completion
if [[ -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]]; then
  autoload -Uz compinit
  compinit
  zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'

github.com

bcomnes/.dotfiles/blob/90cd8bd0cad9a465049df125162fa911cb71c935/configs/bashrc.d/darwin/zsh-completion.sh#L1


# zsh completion
if [ -d "$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-completions" ] && [[ -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]]; then
  HOMEBREW_COMPLETIONS=$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-completions
  CURRENT_COMPLETION="$( echo $FPATH )"
  if [[ ! $CURRENT_COMPLETION == *"${HOMEBREW_COMPLETIONS}"* ]]; then
    FPATH="$HOMEBREW_COMPLETIONS:$FPATH"
  fi
fi

Is anyone else seeing this problem? Do you see an error in my config? Thanks for any ideas.

**bcomnes** · December 6, 2023, 11:27pm

I figured it out with some help on discord.

The system zsh completions had a proper _sublimetext completion file in /usr/share/zsh/5.9/functions, however it wasn’t getting loaded properly. I updated my zsh completions to work like this:

github.com

bcomnes/.dotfiles/blob/411380ff48d09a44977d0906398eee5bf94a078a/configs/bashrc.d/darwin/zsh-completion.sh#L6-L8


FPATH="$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions:${FPATH}"
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

and it started working again.

Broken tab completion macOS Zsh Subl