Compinit not respecting cache location

[rhiznomad]

At this location the autocomplete enrichment runs compinit first. Even if needed, I believe it should respect the $XDG_CACHE_HOME or ZSH_COMPDUMP custom cache path option though compinit -d $XDG_CACHE_HOME. Omitting this currently causes the zcompdump to show up in my dotfiles instead of cache path.

Compinit location:

scaleway-cli/internal/namespaces/autocomplete/autocomplete.go

Line 119 in 6933915

autoload -U compinit && compinit

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[remyleone]

Does that mean that you only need to change this line to:

autoload -U compinit && compinit -d $XDG_CACHE_HOME

Does this also work on all platforms (Linux, macOS and Windows)?

[rhiznomad]

Commonly compinit is already called by default on boot, unless a user sets skip_global_compinit=1 in config as early as possible. That'd indicate a user chooses to calls compinit in own config, like after customisations.

I don not directly set XDG_CACHE_PATH but a versioned string, as without that versioning it causes a conflict on zsh update.

ZSH_COMPDUMP="$XDG_CACHE_HOME/zsh/.zcompdump-$ZSH_VERSION"

After setting up completions in fpath and configuring using zstyle I have

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit -d $ZSH_COMPDUMP

After which other other completions, like _scw, get added. I do not believe scw needs to call compinit themselves; as it should have happened already unless skip_global_compinit is set, and calling it would thereby run compinit twice, slowing down the cli boot. Can confirm it works on linux and mac, no experience on windows.