diff --git a/plugins/pj/pj.plugin.zsh b/plugins/pj/pj.plugin.zsh
index 8b1bc883..1d89af00 100644
--- a/plugins/pj/pj.plugin.zsh
+++ b/plugins/pj/pj.plugin.zsh
@@ -24,10 +24,13 @@ function pj () {
 }
 
 function _pj () {
-    # might be possible to improve this using glob, without the basename trick
+    emulate -L zsh
+
     typeset -a projects
-    projects=($PROJECT_PATHS/*)
-    projects=$projects:t
-    _arguments "*:file:($projects)"
+    for basedir ($PROJECT_PATHS); do
+        projects+=(${basedir}/*(/N))
+    done
+
+    compadd ${projects:t}
 }
 compdef _pj pj