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jankowiak

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Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 8

zsh doesn't refresh completion after pacman -S

I just switched from bash to zsh to test it out but I ran into one small inconvenience... After installing any program with pacman unfortunately zsh doesn't find the installed program when using completion, if I type out the full name it works fine, or if I open a new shell...

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Octoploid

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 64

Re: zsh doesn't refresh completion after pacman -S

 % rehash  

jankowiak

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Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 8

Re: zsh doesn't refresh completion after pacman -S

Thanks for that, makes life a lot easier.

Creak

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Registered: 2013-10-23

Posts: 89

Re: zsh doesn't refresh completion after pacman -S

Is there a way to rehash automatically after an installation?
In other words, how Bash is able to do that?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: zsh doesn't refresh completion after pacman -S

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zs … ent_rehash

Creak

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Registered: 2013-10-23

Posts: 89

Re: zsh doesn't refresh completion after pacman -S

Got my answer here: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/3440

You need to add this line in your .zshrc:

zstyle ':completion:*' rehash true

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: zsh doesn't refresh completion after pacman -S

The answer is, as lucke pointed out, in the wiki. Rather than relying on the stupid Oh-my-zsh, please read the wiki or Zsh's excellent documentation and don't necrobump:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

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