breaks fzf kill/ssh/.. completion

[ztNFny]

fzf has some special completions defined (see completion.zsh), e.g. for "kill -9 [TAB]" it uses ps to list the processes. With zsh-autocomplete that list is broken.

[marlonrichert]

@ztNFny I cannot reproduce this. kill -9 followed by fzf-completion looks identical to me with and without zsh-autocomplete. Can you please update and try again? This might have been fixed already in 3980bb7.

[ztNFny]

@marlonrichert I'm on the latest version already.
With zsh-autocomplete:

Without:

I can repoduce that with a minimal .zshrc:

source "$HOME/.zinit/bin/zinit.zsh"
autoload -Uz _zinit
(( ${+_comps} )) && _comps[zinit]=_zinit
zinit ice pick"shell/key-bindings.zsh" src"shell/completion.zsh"
zinit light junegunn/fzf
zinit light marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

[marlonrichert]

Ah, now I see. It's not broken. It's working as intended. When you press Tab with zsh-autocomplete, it never uses fzf. 🙂

If you want to use fzf's completion with zsh-autocomplete, you need to press CtrlSpace. Please see the Readme: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete/blob/master/README.md#with-fzf

Try it: Type kill -9 and press CtrlSpace. You'll get the same result as in your second image.

[marlonrichert]

You can disable this behavior and keep the default fzf tab behavior by putting the following into your .zshrc file:

zstyle ':autocomplete:tab:*' completion fzf

[ztNFny]

is "zstyle ':autocomplete:" something that's defined by this plugin? I can only find information on "zstyle ':completion:" but not autocomplete

[marlonrichert]

zstyle is Zsh's mechanism for storing preferences. You can read more about it here: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Modules.html#The-zsh_002fzutil-Module

[ztNFny]

that one i found, i was wondering about :autocomplete: specifically

[ztNFny]

what I'm trying to achieve is when I'm in the middle of a word to use zsh-autocomplete (e.g. "ls tes") but with a space prefix to use fzf (e.g. "ls ") but I fail to see where in zsh-autocomplete.zsh that zstyle ':autocomplete:tab:*' completion fzf is handled to derive from it

[marlonrichert]

that one i found, i was wondering about :autocomplete: specifically

That's the prefix/namespace I use for zsh-autocomplete.

[marlonrichert]

what I'm trying to achieve is when I'm in the middle of a word to use zsh-autocomplete (e.g. "ls tes") but with a space prefix to use fzf (e.g. "ls ") but I fail to see where in zsh-autocomplete.zsh that zstyle ':autocomplete:tab:*' completion fzf is handled to derive from it

That's not currently doable out of the box. If that's a feature you want, please open a new issue for it. 🙂

[marlonrichert]

@ztNFny There's an issue for this now: #51. Let's discuss there.