diff --git a/share/completions/j.fish b/share/completions/j.fish
index 7d8a995aa..689e338f8 100644
--- a/share/completions/j.fish
+++ b/share/completions/j.fish
@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@ function __history_completions --argument limit
 	history --prefix (commandline) | string replace -r \^$tokens[1]\\s\* "" | head -n$limit
 end
 
+# erase the stock autojump completions, which are no longer needed with this
+complete -c j -e
 complete -k -c j -a '(__history_completions 25)' -f