some command is executed without pressing enter when zsh-autocomplete enable

[tshu-w]

• zsh-autocomplete version:
• Zsh version: zsh-5.8-0-g77d203f
• Framework: none
• Plugin manager: Znap
• Operating system: darwin20.0

1. Paste the following into your terminal and press Enter:

   cd $(mktemp -d)
   git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git
   print 'PS1="%# " PS2="  " RPS2="< %^"; setopt transientrprompt
   source ~/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh
   export PATH=/Users/wangtianshu/.local/bin:$PATH # add path for ec
   ' > .zshrc
   SHELL==zsh
   exec -c zsh -fc "HOME=$PWD SHELL=$SHELL TERM=$TERM exec $SHELL -d"

2. Once you're able to reproduce your problem in the shell session created
   above, copy-paste the contents of your terminal here:

   ec # type ec and space, focus on Emacs

Here is the content of my ec.
And here is a gif, you can see when I type ec and space, I switch focus to Emacs. This usually happens the first time I enter when I start a new zsh session.

[K4LCIFER]

I have encountered the same issue with KiCAD. I'm guessing zsh is running kicad --help in the background to get the options list, but KiCAD doesn't have a help option, so just typing kicad ends up opening a file called --help in KiCAD.

[tshu-w]

Thanks for the tip, it seems to be the case, I'll try to add special handling for --help.

[tshu-w]

Thx @K4LCIFER, adding special judgments solves this issue.

# Don't change focus with --help
if [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then
    emacsclient --help
    exit 0
fi

Other tips are welcome.

[marlonrichert]

I'm guessing zsh is running kicad --help in the background to get the options list

@K4LCIFER Yes, that is exactly the case. I will have to remove that code and think if there’s a better way to handle that.

[marlonrichert]

@K4LCIFER @tshu-w Would perhaps some kind of blacklist feature be sufficient?

[marlonrichert]

Another idea would be to allow you to override per command how we should fetch help.

[tshu-w]

I think these two can be combined into one, if the override is left blank that is disabled.