Vanilla tab behaviour with zsh-autocomplete

[johnalanwoods]

Hey everyone! I’m using zsh-autocomplete and trying to keep my Tab completion “vanilla” (i.e., expand-or-complete instead of selecting the top suggestion).

Everything is working great, except one weird glitch: whenever I type ~/, it expands to / instead of my $HOME directory.

I'd really like to keep the behaviour be like vanilla expansion, that is multiple tab presses just complete unambiguous and go no further.

Here’s the relevant part of my ~/.zshrc:

# Load zsh-autocomplete
source /path/to/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh

# Rebind Tab to normal Zsh expansion
bindkey '^I' expand-or-complete

Despite these settings, typing something like ~/Docu still expands to / I've tried removing everything else from my config to isolate the issue, but no luck. Has anyone else run into this or know a fix?

Also, although this is close, it doesn't give the 'vanilla' tab behaviour.
I essentially just want tab to be as it is without zsh-autocomplete.

zstyle ':autocomplete:*complete*:*' insert-unambiguous yes
zstyle ':completion:*:*' matcher-list 'm:{[:lower:]-}={[:upper:]_}' '+r:|[.]=**'

Thanks in advance for any pointers or suggestions!

[johnalanwoods]

after about 4 days of fucking around I found the answer:

// first

zstyle ':autocomplete:*complete*:*' insert-unambiguous yes 
zstyle ':autocomplete:*history*:*' insert-unambiguous yes
zstyle ':autocomplete:menu-search:*' insert-unambiguous yes
zstyle ':completion:*:*' matcher-list 'm:{[:lower:]-}={[:upper:]_}' '+r:|[.]=**'
bindkey -M menuselect              '^I' insert-unambiguous-or-complete
bindkey -M menuselect "$terminfo[kcbt]" insert-unambiguous-or-complete
bindkey              '^I'         menu-complete
bindkey "$terminfo[kcbt]" reverse-menu-complete

// then after sourcing zsh-autocomplete:

zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _complete:-fuzzy _correct _approximate _ignored _expand

hopefully this helps someone else some day