beet zsh completion bug ubuntu 20.04

[snowyoneill]

Problem

when i try to complete beets command using zsh command i keep seeing _beet:zregexparse:4: invalid regex : )

I'm running into the same issue i previously documented here:
#3546

except this time i'm running into the problem on the latest Ubuntu LTS

Setup

ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)
oh-my-zsh
	zsh 5.8 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)

beets
	beets version 1.4.9
	Python version 3.8.2
	plugins: no plugins

Can anyone confirm that this is working under Ubuntu 20.04

[sampsyo]

Hello! That's too bad. I unfortunately do not have the excuse to root-cause this, but I will try pinging @vapniks (the author) again.

[jef]

I can confirm, this is a bug right now. I can look into it but I am no expert when it comes to zsh scripts...

edit: Nope, I'm gonna leave it up to the creator because this is regex hell 🤣 Sorry I can't help more.

[vapniks]

My mind is stuck in the world of scheme macros at the moment. When I get an opportunity to make some thinking space for that old zsh completion code I'll have a look, but that may be some time. In case anyone else wants to have a go here are some notes I wrote about how to write zsh completions: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions/blob/master/zsh-completions-howto.org

[jef]

I'll take a read of that one and see if I can come up with anything. Thanks for the documentation!

[vapniks]

@jef The problem is probably somewhere among completion cacheing code, but that's just a guess.

[vapniks]

It may also be due to an incompatibility with new releases of zsh. It works for me with zsh version 5.4.2, but I haven't tried more recent versions: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/releases.html

[stale]

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[snowyoneill]

Looks like this issue exists with the 1.4.9 release once i updated to 1.5.0 it disappeared.

[heylookltsme]

I'm on 1.5.0 and seeing this 😞

[heylookltsme]

Adding this in case it helps someone out...

In trying to debug this, I moved the /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/_beet file to my home directory just to back it up and then rebooted. I then got a new error, (eval):1: _beet: function definition file not found, which made sense. So I moved the _beet file back and... now it works. 🤷🏻

I have no idea. Computers are filled with 👻 s, I swear.

EDIT: oh my god I spoke too soon. Completion seemed to work because I had a typo in the command 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Ribesg]

This bug has been there for like 2 years now, would be nice if it could get fixed…