Thanks to #zsh on freenode, I figured out that this is not a bug but a new default setup. The behavior I described can be achieved if you add the following line to .zshrc:
zstyle ':completion:*' special-dirs .. ** Changed in: zsh (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- zsh completion does not recognize ".." as directory in 4.3.9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376700 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs