diff --git a/tag-zsh/zshrc b/tag-zsh/zshrc
index 5f0ff92f..bc2b3e83 100644
--- a/tag-zsh/zshrc
+++ b/tag-zsh/zshrc
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# Enable extended globbing for use in _load_settings()
+setopt extendedglob
+
 # extra files in ~/.zsh/configs/pre , ~/.zsh/configs , and ~/.zsh/configs/post
 # these are loaded first, second, and third, respectively.
 _load_settings() {