complete:13: command not found: compdef

[revolter]

• Operating system and version

macOS 10.13.2 (17C88)

• nvm debug output:

nvm --version: v0.33.4
$TERM_PROGRAM: iTerm.app
$SHELL: /bin/zsh
$HOME: /Users/revolt
$NVM_DIR: '$HOME/.nvm'
$PREFIX: ''
$NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX: ''
$NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
$NVM_IOJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
shell version: 'zsh 5.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin17.0)'
uname -a: 'Darwin 17.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.3.0: Thu Nov 9 18:09:22 PST 2017; root:xnu-4570.31.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64'
OS version: Mac 10.13.2 17C88
curl: /usr/bin/curl, curl 7.54.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin17.0) libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
wget: /usr/local/bin/wget, GNU Wget 1.19.2 built on darwin17.3.0.
git: /usr/local/bin/git, git version 2.15.1
nvm current: v8.9.4
which node: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v8.9.4/bin/node
which iojs: iojs not found
which npm: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v8.9.4/bin/npm
npm config get prefix: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v8.9.4
npm root -g: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v8.9.4/lib/node_modules

• nvm ls output:

->       v8.9.4
         system
default -> lts/* (-> v8.9.4)
node -> stable (-> v8.9.4) (default)
stable -> 8.9 (-> v8.9.4) (default)
iojs -> N/A (default)
lts/* -> lts/carbon (-> v8.9.4)
lts/argon -> v4.8.7 (-> N/A)
lts/boron -> v6.12.3 (-> N/A)
lts/carbon -> v8.9.4

• How did you install nvm? (e.g. install script in readme, homebrew):

It was installed by Realm using:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/realm/realm-object-server/master/install.sh | bash

• What steps did you perform?

After nvm installed, I ran:

exec zsh -l && . ~/.zshrc

• What happened?

The following error was printed out:

complete:13: command not found: compdef

• What did you expect to happen?

Not throw an error.

• Is there anything in any of your profile files (.bashrc, .bash_profile, .zshrc, etc) that modifies the PATH?

Yes, but it's not related.

The line that's causing this is:

https://github.com/creationix/nvm/blob/d34bb3247d689e926a36c3b6e26a3378b780a982/bash_completion#L97

It might be solved by using compctl -K __nvm nvm instead, maybe with an approach similar to fastlane's, though I'm not sure.

[ljharb]

I'm not familiar with realm. The proper (and only supported) install method is in the readme, namely, installing from this git repo. Does the same thing happen if you install it that way?

It seems like the error is occurring inside complete itself. What does type complete print out?

[revolter]

I'm not sure how to reinstall it but I'm pretty sure it won't fix it, as using complete is not the correct way to configure autocomplete under zsh.

type complete prints complete is a shell function from /Users/revolt/.nvm/bash_completion.

Realm installs nvm by running:

nvm_url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.4/install.sh"
curl -s -o- "${nvm_url}" | bash

So the only differences are that it installs using the -s flag which downloads it silently and that it installs the version 0.33.4 instead of 0.33.8, but the bash_completion file from master still uses the complete command.

[ljharb]

Gotcha. It is a “bash completion” file, so it makes sense that it might not work on zsh - however, it seems to work in local testing.

Is there anything about your install of zsh that might change this?

[revolter]

So that error isn't printed for you when you reload the .zshr file?

Is there anything about your install of zsh that might change this?

I don't know, it's hard to figure out if and what might cause this.

I do have autoload -U compinit; compinit in my .zshr file but it looks like this is used to replace compctl, not enable/force it.

[ljharb]

ah, i could have sworn i had bash_completion in my zshrc file, but i didn't.

When i run . .nvm/bash_completion in my quite stock zsh, I get complete:13: command not found: compdef as well.

Running compctl -K __nvm nvm instead doesn't add tab-completion to my zsh session, however.

I'm certainly open to modifying this file so it can work in zsh, but since I'm not a zsh user, I'm not sure exactly how. Want to open a PR?

[revolter]

I might try, but I can't guarantee.

[JemiloII]

Any update on this? I just started using zsh because bash crashes intellij and I prefer using the terminal in the ide

[revolter]

I personally didn't start working on it

[FallingSnow]

I commented out the last line (complete -o default -F __nvm nvm) from /usr/share/nvm/bash_completion and I no long get the error. I assume this breaks auto completion but I never really used it anyway.

[ljharb]

@FallingSnow if you don't need autocompletion you can just remove the line from your profile file that sources bash_completion :-p

[pecigonzalo]

Hi! the problem seems to be that compinit did not happen yet on ZSH so the compdef command does not exist at the point completion is loaded.
I worked around it by doing the following instead of source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh:

[ -z "$NVM_DIR" ] && export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
source /usr/share/nvm/nvm.sh
source /usr/share/nvm/install-nvm-exec

# Load compinit/compdef
autoload -U compinit
compinit

# Now load completion
source /usr/share/nvm/bash_completion

[ljharb]

@pecigonzalo thanks, that’s great! Could you make a PR to do that in bash_completion, only for zsh, prior to compdef running?

[JemiloII]

Made a PR based off of the solution of @pecigonzalo

Just run the install script in zsh

[pecigonzalo]

@ljharb Sorry I was unable to do so as I was traveling but someone seems to have taken care of it.