diff --git a/src/libcmd/installables.cc b/src/libcmd/installables.cc
index 13e85b1bb..c4fefb971 100644
--- a/src/libcmd/installables.cc
+++ b/src/libcmd/installables.cc
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ Strings SourceExprCommand::getDefaultFlakeAttrPathPrefixes()
 void SourceExprCommand::completeInstallable(std::string_view prefix)
 {
     if (file) {
+        completionType = ctAttrs;
+
         evalSettings.pureEval = false;
         auto state = getEvalState();
         Expr *e = state->parseExprFromFile(
@@ -215,13 +217,14 @@ void SourceExprCommand::completeInstallable(std::string_view prefix)
         Value v2;
         state->autoCallFunction(*autoArgs, v1, v2);
 
-        completionType = ctAttrs;
-
         if (v2.type() == nAttrs) {
             for (auto & i : *v2.attrs) {
                 std::string name = i.name;
                 if (name.find(searchWord) == 0) {
-                    completions->add(i.name);
+                    if (prefix_ == "")
+                        completions->add(name);
+                    else
+                        completions->add(prefix_ + "." + name);
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -249,6 +252,8 @@ void completeFlakeRefWithFragment(
         if (hash == std::string::npos) {
             completeFlakeRef(evalState->store, prefix);
         } else {
+            completionType = ctAttrs;
+
             auto fragment = prefix.substr(hash + 1);
             auto flakeRefS = std::string(prefix.substr(0, hash));
             // FIXME: do tilde expansion.
@@ -264,8 +269,6 @@ void completeFlakeRefWithFragment(
                flake. */
             attrPathPrefixes.push_back("");
 
-            completionType = ctAttrs;
-
             for (auto & attrPathPrefixS : attrPathPrefixes) {
                 auto attrPathPrefix = parseAttrPath(*evalState, attrPathPrefixS);
                 auto attrPathS = attrPathPrefixS + std::string(fragment);