keybind for down-line-or-complete not working in zshrc

[wolfo]

Environment

• Zsh version: 5.7.1; 5.8
• zsh-autocomplete version: 9c933f6

Please report if the bug occurs without config files:
doesn't apply

If not, gradually add lines from your config file to the subshell until the bug appears.

Which combination of config causes the bug to appear?

minimum config in ~/zshrc-test/.zshrc:

source /home/wolfo/.antigen/bundles/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh
bindkey '^I' down-line-or-select

ZDOTDIR=~/zshrc-test HOME=$PWD zsh

Steps to reproduce

1. source zsh-autocomplete in your zshrc
2. bindkey '^I' down-line-or-select in zshrc

Expected behavior

When tab is pressed, autocomplete if there is only one result. If there are more, tab scrolls through all the options instead.
(This is what happens when I enter bindkey '^I' down-line-or-select manually once the shell is started.)

Actual behavior

Pressing tab completes the first result, regardless of how many results there are. The only way to select a result is by pressing down, as is the default.

I'd strongly prefer if tab didn't autocomplete when there are multiple results, but instead keep pressing tab (or typing) until I get the desired selection. And obviously I don't want to issue bindkey manually on every zsh instance :-)

[marlonrichert]

I'd strongly prefer if tab didn't autocomplete when there are multiple results, but instead keep pressing tab (or typing) until I get the desired selection.

That’s already possible, as described in the Readme. Just add one (not both) of the following two lines to your ~/.zshrc file (depending on which type of behavior your prefer; see the linked section in the Readme for details):

# To use menu selection:
zstyle ':autocomplete:tab:*' widget-style menu-select

# To cycle completions without using menu selection:
zstyle ':autocomplete:tab:*' widget-style menu-complete

[wolfo]

Hey, exactly what I want :-) Thanks for the help.

However, I found that neither of these two zstyle options have an effect if I enter them in a shell (even with just the two-liner zshrc above), but only when I put them in zshrc.

This threw me off, because I actually tried both options before (by issuing manually).

[marlonrichert]

That’s a limitation of Zsh’s line editor. Changing that behavior at runtime would require swapping the widget.