fd zsh completion shows error 'zsh: command not found: a'

[b0o]

Attempting to use fd's zsh completion outputs an annoying "command not found: a" upon requesting completion with the tab key. Screencast:

I narrowed it down to line 73 in the generated zsh completion script (installed at /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_fd on Arch Linux):

'::pattern -- the search pattern: a regular expression unless '--glob' is used (optional):_files' \

Escaping the third : solves the issue:

'::pattern -- the search pattern\: a regular expression unless '--glob' is used (optional):_files' \

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$ fd --version
fd 7.4.0

[sharkdp]

Thank you for reporting this and for the analysis.

I haven't looked at it in detail, but it looks like a bug in the autogeneration of clap which should probably be reported upstream.

[farzadmf]

I noticed this bug today, and I'm using oh-my-zsh. For me, adding fd to plugins seems to fix the issue:

plugins=(... fd)

PS: the plugin's readme says that definitions are taken from version 7.3.0, but my current version is 7.4.0, so I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is up-to-date, but at least I don't see that error

[b0o]

@farzamf yeah, that would load the fd completion from oh-my-zsh which, as you noted, is from an older version of fd and doesn’t have this bug. Good workaround in the time being, though.

[barskern]

I just made a PR upstream which will fix this issue. 😄

[laixintao]

Any updates on this?

[barskern]

Sadly no action has been taken upstream yet. You could watch the following PR: clap-rs/clap_generate#5

[QIanGua]

Can you show how to fix it manually？ I can't find the path of clap-rs on mac OS. Thanks.

[barskern]

The fix is now merged upstream! 🎉

clap-rs/clap_generate#5

[sharkdp]

Thank you, @barskern. I'm not sure how this integrates with the main clap repo. Until this ends up in a release, I went the easy way and replaced the : with a -. Could have done this earlier, sorry 😄

[sharkdp]

Released in fd 7.5.0

[laixintao]

Thanks! I hope the latest version can be released on brew soon.