Directory suggestion and CTRL+R not working as expected

[nstoik]

Thanks for making this plugin, I like the way it looks but I am having a few problems trying to use it. I am not sure exactly how to phrase this question or if I am using the correct terminology, but I am unable to get zsh-autocomplete to function as expected or how the README shows. I wasn't able to find any solutions in other discussions or issues.

I use oh-my-zsh and created a minimal configuration on my computer with only the zsh-autocomplete plugin enabled and the behavior is the same. The .zshrc used is here.

1. First off, CTRL+R does not open Live History mode. When pressing CTRL+R nothing happens. Pressing UP does open up the Live History mode. When disabling the zsh-autocomplete plugin, CTRL+R does work as expected.
2. While the directory suggestion shows when at my home directory, it doesn't show when changing to another directory.

After changing into a different directory, no directory suggestions or command autocomplete is provided. Pressing TAB causes the suggestions to briefly flash across the screen, but then they immediately disappear.

Let me know if there are any suggestions to try or if you need any further information.

[marlonrichert]

First off, CTRL+R does not open Live History mode. When pressing CTRL+R nothing happens.

With your minimal config, what do you get from bindkey '^R' and zle -lL history-incremental-search-backward?

After changing into a different directory, no directory suggestions or command autocomplete is provided.

What do you get from ls in that dir?

Pressing TAB causes the suggestions to briefly flash across the screen, but then they immediately disappear.

When this happens, what output do you get in the files $_autocomplete__log, $_autocomplete__log_async and $_autocomplete__log_pty?

[nstoik]

With your minimal config, what do you get from bindkey '^R' and zle -lL history-incremental-search-backward?

Those commands show "^R" history-incremental-search-backward and zle -N history-incremental-search-backward .autocomplete.async.history-incremental-search as output

What do you get from ls in that dir?

ls shows the subfolders present. You can see in the recording below the suggestions flash on the screen when I press TAB

When this happens, what output do you get in the files $_autocomplete__log, $_autocomplete__log_async and $_autocomplete__log_pty?

For the log files, the first file has .autocomplete.async.complete.fd-widget.inner:25: completion cannot be used recursively (yet) repeated multiple times, and the other two files are empty.

Here is a recording of the steps to hopefully visualize it better.

[marlonrichert]

Can you open a bug report and carefully follow the instructions in the template? Then I can have closer look.

[nstoik]

As I was going through the steps to create the bug report the minimal steps in the template worked!!

cd $(mktemp -d)
git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git
> .zshrc <<EOF
PS1='%# ' PS2= RPS2='%^'; setopt transientrprompt interactivecomments
source ~/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh
EOF
env -i HOME=$PWD PATH=$PATH TERM=$TERM ${TERMINFO:+TERMINFO=$TERMINFO} zsh -d

After running those steps, CTRL+R and TAB work in the temp terminal.

So I slimmed down my .zshrc file even further but the normal terminal is still behaving the same. Do you want me to submit a bug report still? Any suggestion what to try next? I am wondering if it could be something with oh-my-zsh, but I am unsure how to debug further.

[nstoik]

Some success with this! To try figure out what was causing the problem, I played around with building the configuration up step by step until the problem started happening.

It ended up being something with oh-my-zsh. I don't know exactly what but whenever that was added to the .zshrc file, the problems started happening.

I ditched oh-my-zsh and switched to zsh-snap and everything seems to be working now.

[marlonrichert]

Thanks, that’s good to know. I’ll test with OMZ and see what’s the problem.