diff --git a/completions.go b/completions.go
index 8a42f8898..ee38c4d0b 100644
--- a/completions.go
+++ b/completions.go
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ to enable it.  You can execute the following once:
 
 To load completions in your current shell session:
 
-	source <(%[1]s completion zsh); compdef _%[1]s %[1]s
+	source <(%[1]s completion zsh)
 
 To load completions for every new session, execute once:
 
diff --git a/zsh_completions.go b/zsh_completions.go
index 9afdf3c04..1856e4c7f 100644
--- a/zsh_completions.go
+++ b/zsh_completions.go
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ func genZshComp(buf io.StringWriter, name string, includeDesc bool) {
 		compCmd = ShellCompNoDescRequestCmd
 	}
 	WriteStringAndCheck(buf, fmt.Sprintf(`#compdef %[1]s
+compdef _%[1]s %[1]s
 
 # zsh completion for %-36[1]s -*- shell-script -*-