Oh-My-Zsh – How to Enable Completion on Home Directory Names

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I recently switched to zsh from bash, and I'm using oh-my-zsh. There's a completion behaviour I don't want: in any directory, the list of autocompletion candidates seems to include the names of all users' home directories.

I wasn't able to find the right zsh option to disable this behaviour out of the hundreds that exist.

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The option responsible for this behaviour is `cdable_vars'. It's not enabled by default.

See the Manual's chapter about Options for details.

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If you always want to complete directory names only for ls, you can put this in your .zshrc:

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zle -C complete_dirs .complete-word _dirs
bindkey '^X/' complete_dirs

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