zsh-syntax-highlighting: "_zsh_highlight_call_widget: maximum nested function level reached; increase FUNCNEST?" error when plugin is used along with zsh-autocomplete

Thanks for your work. I like the plugin.

One issue I have is that it doesn’t play nice with the plugin zsh-autocomplete. I get the error below when I execute most (all?) commands it seems.

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I commented out all other plugin/scripts in my zshrc and found that it was by removing zsh-autocomplete made the error go away. See excerpt below:

#...

# Plugins
source ~/zsh-plugins/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh

# leave as last plugin
source ~/zsh-plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

I have the latest of both plugins. You can find my entire zshrc in this gist

I am running zsh 5.8 on ubuntu 20.04.

About this issue

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 15 (8 by maintainers)

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@robole Thanks for the update. Closing, but reopen if it recurs.

danielshahaf on May 20, 2021

hi @marlonrichert & @danielshahaf

yesterday, the issue was persistent. today, there is no issue! the order of the 2 plugins does not reproduce the issue! 😅

i followed the troubleshooting section of the zsh-autocomplete README yesterday before I filed this issue. So, the completion cache was cleared and I ran zsh without global config also. It didn’t impact it then.

i cant really point out something that might have caused it, but maybe it was related to caching by the fact that today when i rebooted my machine, it was fine. otherwise, i did not change anything from yesterday.

thanks for your help. i hope it was a freak once-off and it does not reoccur.

robole on May 20, 2021