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I am a bit out of my wits researching this... and I just have to ask.

I have oh-my-zsh on my Mavericks machine and have everything updated. I also have Xcode and Brew. All updated. According to this page: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Cheatsheet am I not supposed to just type, say: "g" [tab] and get "git"? or type "md" [tab] and get "mkdir -p"? Right now I just get a list of options I can tab through (or arrow through)... I thought it would autocomplete. What am I missing?

I have a feeling it might be related to my $PATH but that is where I also get confused... where should it point to?

I greatly appreciate and enlightenment. 

# Path to your oh-my-zsh configuration.
#ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh
 export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
#ZSH_THEME="af-magic"
 ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

# Set to this to use case-sensitive completion
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Comment this out to disable weekly auto-update checks
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable colors in ls
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable autosetting terminal title.
# DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want red dots to be displayed while waiting for completion
 COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
 plugins=(git textmate sublime zsh-syntax-highlighting)

 source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

#export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/X11/$
#export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
 export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

 zstyle ':completion:*' list-prompt   ''
 zstyle ':completion:*' select-prompt ''

 autoload -Uz compinit
 compinit
davicho
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Aliases are essentially just short names for commands. Before executing a command zsh internally replaces aliases by their values. But by default aliases are not expanded when using completion (Tab), they are handled just like any other command.

For example:

alias ll='ls -l'
alias la='ls -al'

If you now type lTab, zsh will present you every command starting with an l, including the aliases ll and la. If you type llTab it will probably just add an space after ll (assuming there are no other commands starting with ll).

When you run ll somedir it does the exact same thing as ls -l somedir. You can even add other options of ls: ll -t somedir runs ls -l -t somedir.

That being said, if you want to expand aliases when typing Tab, zsh can do so.

There are two ways:

  1. You can call the _expand_alias widget. In emacs mode (bindkey -e) this is bound to ^Xa (press Control+X then A).

  2. You can add _expand_alias to the completer style. It seems that oh-my-zsh does not change this style from its default value, so adding

    zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand_alias _complete _ignored

    to your ~/.zshrc should work.

    (To be save you can print the current setting with zstyle -L ':completion:*' completer, _expand_alias has to come before _complete)

    If you now type llTab, zsh will replace it with ls -l immediatelly.

Note: in both cases the cursor has to be in or just after the alias for the replacement to happen. This also means you have to type the whole alias or backspace if automatically completed (_completer adds a space after successful completion)

Adaephon
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Tried answers here without any luck unfortunately, however on another related Stackoverflow post I found answer that worked:

_complete_alias() {
    [[ -n $PREFIX ]] && compadd -- ${(M)${(k)galiases}:#$PREFIX*}
    return 1
}
zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete_alias _complete _ignored

https://stackoverflow.com/a/59513051/6352533

Peterv88
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