Zsh-autosuggestions: How to autocomplete only part of command?

[AnthonyWC]

Is there a way to autocomplete only part of command? Currently pressing -> will autocomplete the entire command, is there a key shortcut to only compete to the next tab?

[ericfreese]

Check out the "partial-accept" functionality in the readme. You can add widgets that move the cursor forward to ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_PARTIAL_ACCEPT_WIDGETS to have them accept the suggestion as far as the cursor is moved.

[AnthonyWC]

Hi @ericfreese, so I followed this post from you (https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/93#issuecomment-175939916) that mentioned so I added it in .zshrc & always try to run commands directly in terminal:

# Remove forward-char widgets from ACCEPT
ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_ACCEPT_WIDGETS=("${(@)ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_ACCEPT_WIDGETS:#forward-char}")

# Add forward-char widgets to PARTIAL_ACCEPT
ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_PARTIAL_ACCEPT_WIDGETS+=(forward-char)

But I still don't see a change in behaviour; I tried also starting a new session:

echo $ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_ACCEPT_WIDGETS
end-of-line vi-forward-char vi-end-of-line vi-add-eol

echo $ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_PARTIAL_ACCEPT_WIDGETS
forward-word vi-forward-word vi-forward-word-end vi-forward-blank-word vi-forward-blank-word-end forward-char

Did I miss something?

p.s. I also see various reference to vi-NAME-X and I happen to have vi-mode enabled for zsh; I wonder if that will cause have any relevant for this?

[GeniusV]

hi @AnthonyWC, there is no need to configure it like that. You just need to bind a key to one of the following weights:

• forward-word
• vi-forward-word
• vi-forward-word-end
• vi-forward-blank-word
• vi-forward-blank-word-end

for example, if you want to use ctrl + space to invoke the autocomplete, run bindkey '^ ' forward-word will do the job.

[politicus]

@GeniusV Thank you very much for the tip!

[Justsoos]

with MacOS 10.13.6 and iTerm2, I found "ctrl + →" doing the forward-word, and "→" getting to the end of prompt line by default settings, so you don't need to set it at all.

[popoaichuiniu]

with MacOS 10.13.6 and iTerm2, I found "ctrl + →" doing the forward-word, and "→" getting to the end of prompt line by default settings, so you don't need to set it at all.
in linux，it works well too.

[g000444555]

On macOS 10.15.5 with iTerm2 and Oh My Zsh! I found Option + f moves forward by one word.

[himat]

Is there a way to accept backwards? Like if I press ctrl + <right arrow> too many times?
A backward-word would be great

[ericfreese]

@himat backward-kill-word widget should do the trick. Ctrl + w in emacs mode.

[calbot]

Couldn't get control+left to work for partial match on mac with iterm2

Here are my settings...

echo $ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_PARTIAL_ACCEPT_WIDGETS
forward-word emacs-forward-word vi-forward-word vi-forward-word-end vi-forward-blank-word vi-forward-blank-word-end vi-find-next-char vi-find-next-char-skip

echo $ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_ACCEPT_WIDGETS
forward-char end-of-line vi-forward-char vi-end-of-line vi-add-eol

Since find-word is in the array I would expect control+f to go a word at a time.

I was able to get it to work on mac with control+f and control+b in my .zshrc

bindkey '^f'   backward-word        
bindkey '^b'   forward-word           

The only other binding that worked (without any changes) was control+[ then press f
Would love to find out how to get this working with arrows on mac

[calbot]

Ok anyone struggling with this for iTerm2 see the following...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6205157/iterm-2-how-to-set-keyboard-shortcuts-to-jump-to-beginning-end-of-line

option+arrow works after using that solution!