$POSTDISPLAY not available anymore

[OmeGak]

I have a widget for debugging zle widgets that shows all buffers. I used to be able to get the suggestion segment in $POSTDISPLAY but after upgrading I see the variable is always unset. I found e87bc74 changed the behavior. Is there any other way I can access to it?

debug() {
    zle -M "$POSTDISPLAY"
}
zle -N debug
bindkey '^O' debug

[ericfreese]

Probably the best solution for this problem would be to add to the config a list of widget names that should be ignored. Then you could add your debug widget to that list.

For now, you should be able to add your debug widget to the list of partial accept widgets (ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_PARTIAL_ACCEPT_WIDGETS). It's a little wonky, but as long as it doesn't move the cursor, you shouldn't get any extra effects.

ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_PARTIAL_ACCEPT_WIDGETS+=(debug)

[ericfreese]

Give the features/ignore_widget_list branch a shot, and add your debug widget to ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_IGNORE_WIDGETS array.

Edit: I've actually merged that branch into develop, so that branch should work as well.

[OmeGak]

Thanks a lot! Adding it to ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_PARTIAL_ACCEPT_WIDGETS seems to work fine.

I also checked out develop and the behavior of adding the widget to ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_IGNORE_WIDGETS doesn't really work as expected. While $POSTDISPLAY is available in my widget, executing it causes the $POSTDISPLAY segment to lose its grayed-out highlight. It's just aesthetic as moving the cursor grays it out again.