diff --git a/share/completions/make.fish b/share/completions/make.fish
index ee32172d0..0c89d52a2 100644
--- a/share/completions/make.fish
+++ b/share/completions/make.fish
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 # Completions for make
 
-function __fish_print_make_targets
-	set files Makefile makefile GNUmakefile
-	sgrep -h -E '^[^#%=$[:space:]][^#%=$]*:([^=]|$)' $files | cut -d ":" -f 1 | sed -e 's/^ *//;s/ *$//;s/  */\n/g' ^/dev/null
-end
-
 # This completion is a bit ugly.  It reenables file completion on
 # assignments, so e.g. 'make foo FILES=<tab>' will recive standard
 # filename completion.  Unfortunatly, this turns out to be a bit
diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_print_make_targets.fish b/share/functions/__fish_print_make_targets.fish
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c57e88713
--- /dev/null
+++ b/share/functions/__fish_print_make_targets.fish
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+function __fish_print_make_targets
+	set files Makefile makefile GNUmakefile
+	sgrep -h -E '^[^#%=$[:space:]][^#%=$]*:([^=]|$)' $files | cut -d ":" -f 1 | sed -e 's/^ *//;s/ *$//;s/  */\n/g' ^/dev/null
+end