to repro:

• press up a few times
• press left a few times to change a historical word or character
• the rest of the line disappears, even though you didn't want to change the whole thing

Hi,

I have an issue for some time now, and I hoped it will be fixed, but it still isn't. Sometimes when i try to open new split window or open a new terminal window, zsh freezes and it won't show the line to enter anything, just a blinking cursor. Like it is waiting for something. When i press CTRL+C to stop the process that it is doing, command line shows, but then i get the message below No such widget 'autosuggest-start'. It stands there all the time, clear command is not removing it. Also the plugin is not working in that situation. Here's the screenshot:

Sometimes it works out after restarting terminal, and sometimes the only solution is to restart the computer. When I remove autosuggestion init part in the zshrc, everything works fine.

Here's some system information:

System: Xubuntu 15.04 64 bit
Terminal: Terminator
Zsh: Latest version

And this I have in my .zshrc:

#setup zsh-autosuggestions
source ~/.zsh-autosuggestions/autosuggestions.zsh

# Enable autosuggestions automatically
zle-line-init() {
    zle autosuggest-start
}
zle -N zle-line-init

# use ctrl+t to toggle autosuggestions(hopefully this wont be needed as
# zsh-autosuggestions is designed to be unobtrusive)
bindkey '^T' autosuggest-toggle
AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR='fg=6'
AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_CURSOR=0

Is there any way to debug this?

I just typed ls V and got this as a completion: ls Videos

I decided I didn't want ls V after all, press backspace, and now I see ls ideos

I actually am not really sure how to repro this, but basically, I did a git push --tags and started to type git fetch --prune while it was pushing. This happened:

  tungsten ☠ (1) [38027] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git push --tags               
  Host key fingerprint is 50:83:ed:b9:a6:33:a0:6f:b9:30:02:9f:48:5f:bc:51
  +--[ RSA 2048]----+
  |       oo        |
  |      ....       |
  |      .E .       |
  |    . ..o        |
  |..   +  S.       |
  |oo..o o o        |
  |o =o + o         |
  | ..oo +          |
  |   oo. o         |
  +-----------------+

  git Counting objects: 1, done.
  Writing objects: 100% (1/1), 175 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
  Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
  fetch --prremote: To [email protected]:perl-catalyst/Catalyst-Action-REST.git
  remote:    5832c2d..2a64bbd  mirror/rrwo/not_modified -> mirror/rrwo/not_modified
  remote:  * [new tag]         1.12 -> 1.12
  To [email protected]:Catalyst-Action-REST
   * [new tag]         1.12 -> 1.12
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ 
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ g
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ gi
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git 
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git f
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git fe
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git fet
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git fetc
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git fetch 
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git fetch -
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git fetch --
  (eval):zle:1: no such widget `autosuggest-menu-select-orig'
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38028] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ git fetch --prune
   x [deleted]         (none)     -> origin/drolsky/get_html
   x [deleted]         (none)     -> origin/drolsky/immutabilize-everything
   x [deleted]         (none)     -> origin/factor-out-data-serialization
   x [deleted]         (none)     -> origin/wreis/default_head
   x [deleted]         (none)     -> origin/wreis/deserialize_json
   x [deleted]         (none)     -> origin/xeno/statuses
  tungsten ☠ (1) [38029] ~/code/Catalyst-Action-REST «master» $ 

I do reverse history searches A LOT. If the autocompleter shows something from your history, but you want to search, reverse search will only search for things before what was autocompleted, instead of before the current command.

I recommend you tag the version for the project. So it will be easier for users to arrange and update. Also it will allow package manger to handle such a good plugin.

Please tag the version, so I can create a homebrew formula for this.

If only so said additional maintainer could take over responding to issues, reviewing & merging PR etc.

After setting up autosuggestions every zsh shell process is taking up 100% CPU after using suggestions once. From my zshrc:

source ~/.zsh-autosuggestions/autosuggestions.zsh
export AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR='fg=248'
bindkey '^F' forward-word
zle-line-init() {
  zle autosuggest-start
}
zle -N zle-line-init

zsh:

$ zsh --version
zsh 5.0.5 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.2)

Let me know if I can help.

auto-fu is a set of scripts that lists all of the completions menu-style. I love the zsh-autosuggestions async method and the whole idea of history based completion. Is it possible to menu-complete asynchronously in the spirit of auto-fu? I have several conditions to make sure auto-fu isn't too slow:

• Number of matches N
• Number of displayed lines N
• Percent lines of whole terminal

It's really cool being able too see all of the completions available (including contextual information too) and be able to choose from them. History based suggestions are also cool, but only when they're correct. Having both would be awesome.

If this isn't possible, is there a way I can have zsh-autosuggestions supply only history suggestions and have auto-fu do the rest?

Thanks for the awesome code!
PythonNut

We are still relatively new in town, and just getting started, but we are more stable than the other options, namely OMF. I think some of these functions could be turned into a handful of Wahoo plugins or maybe some could be even make it to core. We are always accepting feature request and feedback. I would love if you could give Wahoo a look.

Regards 😄

There is no -e option on the readlink installed on Mac OSX, so the install fails completely (see L11 on install here)

bash-3.2$ sh /Users/me/.antigen/repos/https-COLON--SLASH--SLASH-github.com-SLASH-tarruda-SLASH-zsh-autosuggestions.git/install
readlink: illegal option -- e
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
usage: dirname path

Setup completed successfully!

Refer to this commit: 32fb793

Hey!

I was wondering if it was possible to add this to the oh-my-zsh plugins?

I know absolutely nothing about how zsh works, but if someone can point me in the right direction, I'm sure I could throw together a PR for oh-my-zsh if you don't mind.

Can history-substring-search be used as inspiration?
https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/tree/master/plugins/history-substring-search

If vi mode is on (bindkey -v), the following happens:

1. Type some text
2. Hit escape to enter normal mode
3. Navigate backwards on the line so your cursor is within that text
4. Pressing a (append) or i (insert) will cause any text after the cursor to disappear because autosuggestions kicks in with that text after the cursor as the suggestion, and once you diverge from it by inserting text, it's gone.

Contrast this with using the arrow keys to move backwards without ever leaving insert mode and any typed text is inserted in the middle as expected.

It'd be great if this could be cloned in the plugins dir and just loaded as a plugin (e.g. oh-my-zsh)

Sample plugin that does that: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

what the title says: I would like the suggestion accepted when I press the right arrow, at the end of line.

For commands like cd, vim, etc. the suggestion based on history alone is not always applicable/relevant in a given context (for example, if I just cded to a given directory, the latest cd in my history is no longer useful, relative cd commands are also not relevant if the path is not visible from the current directory). It may be nice to perform a check if this command is relevant based on $PWD, or allow users a way to define their own filters for relevant commands. I understand that this will not be possible for exotic commands and user scripts, but doesn't seem like it would be hard to do for common system tools (zsh already does this for its tab completion). Allowing the users to easily setup their own macros for this, on the other hand, could allow them to create more relevant filters for their own use cases (like ssh tab completion based on /etc/hosts).

Hello,

Is there a way to toggle through suggestions? I'm not sure this is the correct way to say it but what I mean is this:

I type for eexample "git diff" (and the remaining of my last git diff appears here)

I would like to, for example, press UP / DOWN to toggle though the other applicable entries to this suggestion.

Is this possible ?

Hi tarruda,

thanks for your plugin. I'm quite new to zsh and maybe I did something wrong, but I expected to accept a suggested line via enter/return. Instead the suggestion was removed and I accepted everything before the suggestion. I commented out two lines (https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/autosuggestions.zsh#L36, https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/autosuggestions.zsh#L147) to get my desired effect. Can I get the same effect somehow without modifying the source?

The install script has a cosmetic issue when running on Cygwin/Windows 7 for me. The \n characters are printed literally instead of turning in to newlines, even when explicitly run under bash.

This is on Windows 7, with Cygwin updated as of about 1/25/2015.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 gwydion 1.7.34(0.285/5/3) 2015-02-04 12:14 x86_64 Cygwin

I think this is because echo is non-portable when used with escape sequences or options. Different shells and even different bashes might behave differently on different systems. Described here. It'll probably affect Fedora 21 and FreeBSD as well, based on a similar issue I've seen with oh-my-zsh (ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#3658).

Looks like it could be fixed by replacing echo with printf calls.

On the current master, bindkey '^f' vi-end-of-line properly autocompletes, but does not change the autocompletion color.

This was reported at #29 by @k4nar . I'm facing the same issue so here is a proper issue for it.

Autocompletion for files, git etc is not working with this plugin loaded. Unloading the plugin fixes the problem.

I'm using antigen.

Will add more info when I have time to take a deeper look at the problem.

The installation instruction asks users to run sh ~/.zsh-autosuggestions/install for installation. But sh is symlinked to dash in ubuntu 12.04 and probably in many Debian distros. Since dash doesn't support SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" it throws up an error. It will be good if there is an explanation for this in the instructions for Debian based distros to run it with bash or to ask users to run it with /bin/bash directly.

Input:

» echo "hi"                                              
hi
» echo "bye"                                              
bye

• type in "echo"
• press up arrow once: expected result is echo "hi". Pass
• press up arrow again. expected result is echo "bye". Actual result: something random. :(
• Press up arrow a few more times: a random walk through history.

In fish, the result would be an orderly series of results which start with "echo"

When typing, autosuggest behaves as expected. However when the backspace button is pressed, the suggestion is not cleared from the line as in Fish

The suggestion is cleared upon entering vi-command-mode.
zsh version: zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0)
other plug-ins: history-substring-search zsh-syntax-highlighting
using oh-my-zsh

Here is settings for zsh-autosuggestions:

And settings for zsh-syntax-highlighting:

I got these errors each time I press arrow key UP and DOWN:

But if I remove any one of those two settings, the errors disappeared.

With my zsh settings (http://github.com/frioux/dotfiles) I get this error when I start zsh: (eval):zle:1: no such widget `menu-select'

When I use the Ctrl + E or use the direction keys will appear this kind of situation, and can't copy and paste

I love this plugin, it's making the switch from fish to zsh easier and easier. I was happy to see it now integrates well with the syntax highlighting plugin.

However, it doesn't emulate the default behavior of fish. In fish, if I hit right arrow when a possible completion is shown, it will complete the whole thing at once.

This plugin currently completes a single character when I press the right arrow.

Is there some way to bind right arrow to complete the whole prediction?
Is there some way to bind right arrow to complete by word?

I'm running brew installed zsh 5.0.7 and the latest oh-my-zsh in iTerm2 on Mac OS X 10.10.3 (the latest yosemite) if it makes any difference.

I get the error in the title. Indeed my file does not exist since I use .zshenv to set ZDOTDIR.
The script should check if $ZDOTDIR exists and use $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc when it does.

I'm trying to use zsh-autosuggestions with antigen, apparently it works, but it breaks some keybindings:

1. The Home and End key do nothing, but ^A and ^E still work to move the cursor to the beginning and end of line;
2. ^C has to be pressed two times to kill the line (^U still works, but I find ^C more convenient);
3. The right arrow does not accept the autosuggestion, but here I'm not sure if it is supposed to do so.

It does not matter if I add "antigen use oh-my-zsh" in my zshrc, I still get these problems. No errors are printed.

If you need me to perform any test just let me know.
Thanks!

The default file auto-complete got broken with this; plus I can't tab complete at all.

Hey there, anyone who can help with the issue I'm facing? Basically it seems there is no way I can get zsh-autosuggestions to work out of the box. I need to call autosuggestion-toggle via key bind everytime I start a session. Here is my current config file, anyone who can spot what am I doing wrong?

I'm running all the latest versions of zsh, oh-my-zsh and the tools required on OSX

Thanks a lot for your help.

It seems that whatever color zsh-autosuggestions uses for its guess sticks around for the remaining length of the guess once the input diverges from the guess. For example, if cd has ~/code/repo as the guess, but I type cd ~/code/ocaml/, parts of ocaml will still be the color that zsh-autosuggestions uses, and text after that will be normally colored.

Deleting a single differently-colored character seems to cause all of the colored text to correct itself.

It is somewhat expected since both plugins are using the same zle widgets. I guess you need to cooperate and work out some standard that will allow using both plugins.

Fish has both completion and highlighting and it looks nice. I do not like much more limited capabilities of it though.

Error:

> ~/workSpace $
No such widget `autosuggest-cd-complete-orig'

I defined a widget like this:

cd-complete() {
  if [[ ! -n $BUFFER ]] ; then
    BUFFER="cd "
    zle end-of-line
  fi
  zle expand-or-complete
}
zle -N cd-complete
bindkey "\t" cd-complete

How can I fix it?

I am trying to bind a key to this function.

Every once in a while I find myself running more than one instance of the completion server. Investigate why this is happening

i don't know if it's possible right now but make all suggestions inline and make them fuzzy. much line fzf:

this should go nicely with @jirutka's autosuggest-execute-suggestion (#61)

We know from #14 that "^I" should not be bind to zprezto expand-or-complete-with-indicator.
From sorin-ionescu/prezto#884
An override can be added in order to avoid commenting these lines?
https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto/blob/a84ac5b0023d71c98bb28a68c550dc13f6c51945/modules/editor/init.zsh#L303-L304

Is there any way to enable fish-alike file/directory autosuggestion in commands that receiving it, like cd, ls etc.? Any other plugin maybe? thx

It would be nice to be able to use zsh-autosuggestions with prezto (https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto). There are a few issues with it, especially with the 'history-substring-search' module.

A simple, bare install of prezto and zsh-autosuggestions doesn't seem to be working properly.

$ tmwork
No such shell function `autosuggest-accept-suggested-word'

Currently all completion widgets are replaced by wrappers that remove RBUFFER before invoking the original widget. I'm not sure if this approach will be compatible with all configurations

In a perfect world theres a zle 'before completion' hook that can be used to achieve the same effect, but unfortunately I couldn't find one

When I press my up/down arrow key to invoke the up/down-line-or-history widgets, I get the following error: autosuggest-suspend:1: job table full or recursion limit exceeded

When I hit when autosuggestions is enabled, it deletes the previous line, and scrolls up the terminal. I'm using

https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles

When autosuggestions is disabled, this phenomena does not occur.

So, I'm using zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-history-substring-search, and zsh-autosuggestions together; unfortunately, once an autosuggestion has highlighted some content, the length of that content remains $AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR indefinitely thereafter:

• i don't know if the following is possible to do. it's more of a support question than a bug report but couldn't find mailing-list of irc channel for the project.
• this is mainly the behaviour of autocompletion in apple's Safari address bar. i think webkit drivatives (e.g. chrome) do the same if you don't have access to osx.
• i will try to expalin this as best as i can but please let me know if it's not clear.

say user types 'vi' and suggestion is provided in front of the cursor as '~/.zshrc'. now:

1. user wants this [accept]
2. user wants to stop right up to what he's typed in. [unsuggest]
   .. and perhaps continue later one. [suggest-ON]
3. user wants this to be modified. [edit]

a. to aceept, majority of cases since we know how good zsh-autosuggestions is, is default.
b. to unsuggest, to just take the suggestion out of the line, right now deletes the last char typed by the user.
to turn suggestion back ON, .
c. to edit, . notice that now the suggestion becomes real, it's inserted for the user to edit and mode is changed into vicmd.

1. a menu of suggestions which can be cycled through with

On my install (zsh, terminator, crunchbang/debian) the text on the right is not grey, it is the same color as the left.
I dont know if this is a bug or if this is just my setup but its really annoying.

Hi @tarruda,

First of all, this looks great! Thanks for creating it.

My problem is, after I enable this plugin, the native zsh auto completion stop working.
For example, when I cd to some dir and click tab for some dir name suggestion, it won't show up any more.

The suggestion by zsh-autosuggestions can not be accepted by the tab key as well. They just disappears after i click tab.

Here is my .zshrc, maybe helpful for identifying the problem.

# Path to your oh-my-zsh configuration.
ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
ZSH_THEME="mytheme"

# Example aliases
# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"

# Set to this to use case-sensitive completion
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment this to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment to change how often before auto-updates occur? (in days)
# export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=13

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable colors in ls
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable autosetting terminal title.
DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable command autocorrection
# DISABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want red dots to be displayed while waiting for completion
COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable marking untracked files under
# VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories much,
# much faster.
# DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true"

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
plugins=(git osx autojump brew node npm pip pod sublime)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# Config history
setopt hist_ignore_all_dups
setopt hist_ignore_space

# Autojump init
# [[ -s `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh ]] && . `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh
autoload -U compinit && compinit

# rbenv
eval "$(rbenv init -)"


# Setup zsh-autosuggestions
source ~/.zsh-autosuggestions/autosuggestions.zsh

# Enable autosuggestions automatically
zle-line-init() {
    zle autosuggest-start
}
zle -N zle-line-init

# use ctrl+t to toggle autosuggestions(hopefully this wont be needed as
# zsh-autosuggestions is designed to be unobtrusive)
bindkey '^T' autosuggest-toggle