Creating a Custom Zsh Completion Function with compdef and _arguments
Learn how to add tab‑completion for your own commands in Zsh by defining a completion function, linking it with compdef, and using the _arguments helper.
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zshChoosing Between Legacy and Modern Zsh Completion: A Decision Guide
A decision guide for choosing between Zsh's basic completion and the programmable compinit framework, with a concrete cached configuration and validation steps.
Writing Zsh Tab Completions with compsys: A Practical Guide
Learn how to create custom Zsh completions using the compsys framework, from a simple function to styling and caching, with a concrete example you can try today.
Making Zsh Tab‑Completion Work for Your Own Scripts
Learn how to enable Zsh’s programmable completion for your own scripts by writing a simple completion function, linking it with compdef, and verifying the result in a fresh shell.
Build Context‑Aware Tab Completions for Your Custom CLI with Zsh’s Programmable Completion System
Zsh’s programmable completion lets you add context‑aware tab completions to any CLI. Learn how to write a minimal completion with _arguments, add dynamic data, debug with _complete_debug, and keep performance fast.
Choosing Between compinit and zcompile for Faster Zsh Startup
Guide to choosing between compinit, compinit -C, and zcompile‑based caching for faster Zsh startup, with a ready‑to‑paste .zshrc snippet and validation steps.
zsh completion system: inconsistent behavior across macOS and Linux distributions
Goal Enable consistent, high‑performance programmable completion in a low‑traffic interactive shell environment. Current Observation On macOS, many completion scripts trigger extended prompts and consume noticeable startup time, whereas on Linux the same scripts are silent or fail to load. The discrepancy appears when compinit is invoked from ~/.zshrc after
OpenAI API error 429: "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details"
I'm making a Python script to use OpenAI via its API. However, I'm getting this error: openai.error.RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details My script is the following: #!/usr/bin/env python3.8 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import openai openai.api_key = "<My PAI Key>" completion = openai.ChatCompletion.crea
pythonDoes ohmyzsh automatically invalidate its completion cache when a new executable is added to $PATH?
Ohmyzsh stores generated completions in a cache directory to speed up shell startup. The cache is considered valid based on the modification times of the source completion scripts, but it does not automatically track newly added executables in the user's $PATH. When a new command‑line tool that ships its own completion script is installed, users often observ