zsh-autocomplete: History menu doesn't insert completion when part of the word is typed (Oh-My-Zsh)

Environment

Zsh version: 5.5.1
zsh-autocomplete version: 0da3bdc1dd7c97a6afba53e922483a8be70acb4d
Latest Oh-My-Zsh (manually updated using omz update today, 16 Oct 2020)

Please report if the bug occurs without config files:

$ cd $(mktemp -d)  # Create a temp dir and enter it.
$ ZDOTDIR=$PWD HOME=$PWD zsh -f  # Start a subshell in it without config files.
% source path/to/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh  # Source the plugin.
% # Try to reproduce your bug...

Does the bug occur without config files?

If not, gradually add lines from your config file to the subshell until the bug appears.

Which combination of config causes the bug to appear?

source /root/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh
source /root/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh

Steps to reproduce

Let’s say I want to type nano .zshrc which I’ve entered before so it’s going to appear in history menu
I typed na and pressed arrow up
Select nano .zshrc and enter

Expected behavior

It should be saying nano .zshrc in my terminal

Actual behavior

It goes back to na If there’s nothing in the terminal (me without typing na), it actually works.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 31 (15 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Remove incompatible completion setting from OMZ Fix issue #112. — committed to marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete by marlonrichert 4 years ago

Most upvoted comments

After creating a temp ZSH shell and just sourcing the completion.zsh and zsh-autocompelete, the first command as well as the second command after the first commands work perfectly.

cenk1cenk2 on Oct 20, 2020

@marlonrichert deleting completion.zsh in .oh-my-zsh/lib fixed it apparently.

awooooool on Oct 19, 2020

Can you try the following?

Make a backup of .oh-my-zsh/lib.
For each file in .oh-my-zsh/lib:
1. Delete the file.
2. Run a clean subshell with OMZ and zsh-autocomplete, as described above.
3. See if the problem occurs.

Does deleting any of these files cause the problem to go away? If so, which one?

marlonrichert on Oct 19, 2020

We should thank you for your time on this, very grateful about it much thanks.

cenk1cenk2 on Oct 21, 2020

Alright, it’s fixed now. Thanks for helping out!

marlonrichert on Oct 21, 2020

Hi, I’m suffering from the same problem.

I copy .oh-my-zsh/lib/completion.zsh to a file try, comment some of the lines and run the following:

$ zsh -f
% source /path/to/try
% source /path/to/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh

If line 1-13 are left uncommented, the completion goes well. But if I uncomment line 14 further, the problem occurs, so I think it is the line 14 that causes the problem, which says

zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:*' menu select

wu-qing-157 on Oct 20, 2020

Great! That narrows it down a lot. I’ll see what I can do fix it.

marlonrichert on Oct 19, 2020

@marlonrichert I’ve actually given up on oh-my-zsh as I found it’s undocumented “helpers” were more of a hindrance! I am not seeing this behaviour (I’m still on d7e7b05).

artfulrobot on Oct 19, 2020