cd .. completion not working

[paweloque]

I just installed oh my zsh on a new machine and the 'cd ..' completion is not working. All the other directory and filename completions work properly, but when I type 'cd ..' no proposals for directories in the upper directory are provided. Before installin ohmyzsh, on bash the completion worked properly.

I'm on a Macbook Pro 13'' touchbar with High Sierra 10.13.2 .

[evberrypi]

That is interesting that it is not working with the cd prefix.
Is it still failing when you type in just .. ?

[paweloque]

It doesn't work neither with the '..' shortcut.. Do you have any ideas how to analyse the problem?

[joeycozza]

My only insight is that it does give you proposals if you type cd ../. Maybe it has to do with the fact that there is an alias for ... and .... so it can't expand or give suggestions? Not really sure.

[paweloque]

In deed, the cd ../ works like expected. Funny though, that it used to work.. But it's okay now.
I tried to remove the '..' alias, but it seems to be defined using another mechanism that the normal aliases. I don't know the internal workings of ohmyzsh. How are the '..' and '...' aliases defined?

[joeycozza]

Looks like it is here . https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/3705d47bb3f3229234cba992320eadc97a221caf/lib/directories.zsh

You could delete those lines from your .oh-my-zsh/lib/directories.zsh file for testing. If removing them does help cd .. to give completion, then you could follow the steps here https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Customization to more fully remove the alias for your use case. If that doesn't make sense, let me know and I can explain it further.

[paweloque]

I've uncommented the '...' '....' etc aliases, but the completion still doesn't work like before. Interestingly there is no '..' alias in this file. Do you have the '..' alias in your lib/directories.zsh file?
Is it something built in?

[joeycozza]

Dang. Bummer that didn't work.
Also, when I just run alias to get a list of all aliases that are set, it doesn't even have ".." as an alias. So the double period must be some built in behavior somewhere else, but I couldn't find it. Sorry man.

[paweloque]

No Problem @joeycozza . You helped me already a lot by telling to try '../'
Thanks!

[mathewmeconry]

same issue with Fedora 27 and the latest version of oh my zsh

[mcornella]

This will fix it: zstyle ':completion:*' special-dirs true. We could have that pulled in OMZ though.

[mcornella]

As a matter of fact, this was asked already in #3775. I'll make a quick PR.