Tilde+tab triggers backslash

[LangLangBart]

description

Pressing the tab key after the ~ (tilde) symbol adds a \ (backslash) in front of the tilde symbol

• macOS
  • default terminal
• zsh setup
  • romkatv/zsh4humans

to reproduce

1. Type mv ~/
2. Press the tab key
3. a backslash appears before the tilde symbol
4. see GIF below for more clarity

GIF

PS: Found out about this repo from a post in the cli/cli repo. Besides the ~ (tilde) issue very happy with it.

[rsteube]

Yes, this is done by compadd which currently handles quoting (carapace-sh/carapace#313) and related to how zsh does file expansion.
I think there was a zsh config that expands the path before passing it to a command which would be a quick fix, can't find it at the moment though.

This is actually a bit tricky (as there can also be files/folders/arguments with a ~ prefix) and I've been avoiding the issue so far to first get a better understanding of how to handle it.
I have general idea now though and will have a look at it.

[LangLangBart]

❯ carapace --version
0.15.0

I can confirm that the \ (backslash) no longer appears, but it adds a space after the selected word.

[rsteube]

Hmm..this is somehow related to the fzf plugin 🤔 . It works with the standard zsh menu.

[rsteube]

Either related to a fzf-tab or zsh4humans configuration. Issue doesn't seem to appear using fzf-tab directly.

[rsteube]

Ah, thought it uses fzf-tab but looks like a custom script: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh4humans/blob/ced34c2bc8432be535acf0e513e17edfcf240ee3/fn/z4h-fzf-complete