Can't create zsh-autocomplete directory in $XDG_STATE_HOME

[Pilgrim1379]

• I have carefully read all of the instructions in this issue template.

I'm sorry in this case I'm not able to follow the template with the zsh-autocomplete plugin enabled. This is because the error message just scrolls up the screen endlessly. It's therefore impossible to type and observe the output of any command.

Description

I after upgrading the plugin to commit, when I start my terminal all I get is the following scrolling up the screen endlessly:

autocomplete/log/2023-04-06.log
~                                                                             11:52:58
❯
.autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget:3: not a directory: /Users/nqa/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete/log/2023-04-06.log
~                                                                             11:52:58
❯
.autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget:3: not a directory: /Users/nqa/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete/log/2023-04-06.log
~                                                                             11:52:58
❯
.autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget:3: not a directory: /Users/nqa/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete/log/2023-04-06.log

So looking in ~/.local/state, I see the following:

~/.local/state                                                                11:36:52
❯ ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 user staff  96 Mar 10 09:16 gem/
drwx------ 11 user staff 352 Apr  5 08:50 nvim/
drwxr-xr-x  3 user staff  96 Apr  5 07:43 pnpm/
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user staff  52 Aug 18  2022 powerlevel10k -> /Users/user/Git/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user staff  59 Apr  6 11:35 zsh-autocomplete -> /Users/user/Git/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user staff  65 Aug 18  2022 zsh-autosuggestions -> /Users/user/Git/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.plugin.zsh
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user staff  57 Aug 18  2022 zsh-completions -> /Users/user/Git/zsh-completions/zsh-completions.plugin.zsh
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user staff  73 Aug 18  2022 zsh-syntax-highlighting -> /Users/user/Git/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.plugin.zsh

I use your other plugin zsh-snap to manage my zsh plugins and as you can see, it creates symlinks to all the plugins it installs in $XDG_STATE_HOME.

I think what is happening is, because a symlink for zsh-autocomplete has already been created in $XDG_STATE_HOME by zsh-snap, the zsh-autocomplete folder and it's subfolder log can't be created as hence the log files can't be written.

[bbholty1]

I'm also running into the same issue and use zsh-snap as well and concur with @ThePreacher that ~/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete is already symlinked to: ~/.zsnap/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh

[Arrow-x]

yep deleting the symlink and sourcing zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh manually fixes the problem

[jroth5]

I'm running into a similar issue.

When I attempt to install using znap, I get a similar loop:

Kyla-s-S21# 
.autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget:3: not a directory: /tmp/tmp.CStO4sectj/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete/log/2023-04-22.log
Kyla-s-S21# 
.autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget:3: not a directory: /tmp/tmp.CStO4sectj/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete/log/2023-04-22.log
Kyla-s-S21# 
.autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget:3: not a directory: /tmp/tmp.CStO4sectj/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete/log/2023-04-22.log
Kyla-s-S21# 
.autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget:3: not a directory: /tmp/tmp.CStO4sectj/.local/state/zsh-autocomplete/log/2023-04-22.log

Manually installing (not using znap) doesn't seem to cause the loop on installation. I haven't yet tested how it behaves after that (such as on startup).