Zoxide completion doesn't work when relying only on Ez-Compinit

[mbeko]

I noticed that the following Zoxide completion stopped working when I started to use Ez-compinit:

cd foo<SPACE><TAB>  # show interactive completions

To activate Zoxide, I have this in my .zshrc:

eval "$(zoxide init zsh --cmd cd)"

Since I'm not very knowledgeable about Zsh completion, I asked AI, and it explained that this line in the Zoxide initialisation checks if the completion system is fully active:

[[ "${+functions[compdef]}" -ne 0 ]] && \compdef __zoxide_z_complete cd

Because Ez-compinit is holding the system in a deferred state, this checks fails, and the completion for cd isn't loaded.

It suggested to trigger Compinit after loading Antidote and before initialising Zoxide like this:

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

Indeed, that solved the problem. If you think the analysis is correct, I suggest to mention this special case in the readme file. Right now, it says one can just load this plugin, and forget about calling Compinit. It's confusing for people without the necessary knowledge when this main premise fails.

[mattmc3]

Thanks for the detailed bug report. The line you showed me should not be failing though since ez-compinit does define a compdef function -

ez-compinit/ez-compinit.plugin.zsh

Lines 71 to 74 in 5c9b6da

	function compdef {
	(( $# )) || return
	__compdef_queue+=("${@[@]}" ";;;do compdef;;;")
	}

What that function does is capture all the calls to compdef and replays them after compinit is actually called. That's not to say there isn't a problem somewhere - just that the answer AI gave you would seem to not be the actual issue here. I also use zoxide, so it's worth more research to get it resolved.

[mbeko]

Thanks for your evaluation, it makes sense that the check for the function should succeed then. Please let me know if you need more information from my side. Maybe it's worth mentioning explicitly that there was no Compinit call in my .zshrc before, so I didn't move it to the suggested location, I added it there