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Re: Completion fails to search in $PATH

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From: Kevin Sullivan <kevins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: siruguri@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Completion fails to search in $PATH
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:39:19 -0500 (EST)
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Sameer Siruguri writes:
> Hi.
> 
> When I create a new executable in some directory that is in my $PATH,
> completion fails to add that to the list when I press TAB.  The new executable
> is added only after I restart zsh. It seems that zsh is caching the completion
> list and doesn't re-read the cache very often.
> 
> Is there some way I can get zsh to refresh the completion list after I have
> made a change to it?
> 
> Thanks. Sameer.
> --
> Sameer Siruguri				  Graduate student, CS, Rice University
> siruguri@xxxxxxxxxxx	       713 630 9243           www.cs.rice.edu/~siruguri
> 
> 

When you add a new entry into your path you can refresh the cache with 
the builtin command 'rehash'. After that <TAB> should find your new
command(s). 

  -Kevin Sullivan

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- Completion fails to search in $PATH
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