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.
The option responsible for this behaviour is `cdable_vars'. It's not enabled by default.
See the Manual's chapter about Options for details.
According to manual, zsh tries to expand the expression as if it were preceded by a ‘~’.
To unset the CDABLE_VARS option type in shell or add to .zshrc:
$ unsetopt cdablevars
(Before unsetting the option I had tens of seconds delay on hosts with autofs mounted home folder)
This behaviour is the combined effect of zsh's cdable_vars and auto_cd settings. oh-my-zsh sets these settings in ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/theme-and-appearance.zsh if you want to get rid of them.
cdpath, try unsetting it:cdpath=().oh-my-zsh, and this behaviour disappears when I don't source it. But I'm still wondering which setting is responsible, so I can just turn that one off./homeand have enabledautocdthis is expected as it is completing a directory./home/jogloran). I want to access a directory/home/jogloran/apple/banana, so I typecd apple/ba<TAB>. But in addition to the pathapple/banana, there's a user calledbambi, and there are two completion candidates:bambiandbanana. Worse,bambicomes first in the completion list. If I selectbambi, I get taken to~bambi. I'm not in/home, so this isn't expected behaviour, and I've triedcdpath=()beforehand.