Zsh-autosuggestions: Causing tab autocomplete not working

[icpm]

Hi all!

Thanks for providing this super useful tool at first!

Here is my case, after updating this plugin, tab autocomplete doesn't work for me anymore, which is a similar scenario as #25. Even though I disabled COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS in zshrc, the problem still persists.

My zshrc is

# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

# oh-my-zsh
export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

# Anaconda3
export PATH=$HOME/anaconda3/bin:$PATH

# nvm
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

# GPG key
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)

# Theme
ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

# Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion.
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion. Case
# sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable.
# HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days).
# export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=13

# Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls.
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title.
DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
# COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Uncomment the 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"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time
# stamp shown in the history command output.
# You can set one of the optional three formats:
# "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd"
# or set a custom format using the strftime function format specifications,
# see 'man strftime' for details.
# HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy"

# Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom?
# ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder

# 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)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.

plugins=(
  git 
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
  zsh-autosuggestions
)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# User configuration
# export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"

# You may need to manually set your language environment
# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
# if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
#   export EDITOR='vim'
# else
#   export EDITOR='mvim'
# fi

# Compilation flags
# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"

# ssh
# export SSH_KEY_PATH="~/.ssh/rsa_id"

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

Does anyone have ideas of how to fix it?

[cj-hopkins]

What is the output of echo $ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_STRATEGY? It may not have anything to do with your issue, but call it a hunch.

[icpm]

It's default.

[cj-hopkins]

Ok, and you don't get any error messages or console output at all?

[icpm]

No. After the update, I only notice that autosuggestion is not working.

[cj-hopkins]

Ok. Well in that case, sorry, I don't have a solution for you. I was having problems after the update, but they don't seem to be related. You could try run export ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_STRATEGY="history". You never know, did the trick for me.

[icpm]

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me. But thank you for the help!

[ericfreese]

See my comment here: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/395#issuecomment-442689873

I don't know what it has to do with tab completion, but if you're using v0.5.0, $ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_STRATEGY should never be default because that strategy no longer exists and was renamed to history. The default value of $ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_STRATEGY has been changed to (history), so it seems that somewhere in your config you are setting it to default, which is likely causing the issues you're seeing.

[ericfreese]

Check in your $ZSH_CUSTOM directory for any additional config you may have added. You should be able to remove anything setting ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_STRATEGY and use the default value of (history).

[icpm]

I double-checked ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_STRATEGY and it's (history) now. However, auto_cd is not working. Any clue on why this happens?

[mustafaturksavas]

I have the same problem, but mine was already set to history, so that's obviously not the cause.

[jmcarcell]

I have a similar problem, autocompletion is not working for folders.

Sample .zshrc:

setopt autocd 
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

I have a folder called Test in my home directory. If I open a terminal with that .zshrc, change to my home directory and type Te Output of pacman -Qs zsh-autosuggestions
local/zsh-autosuggestions 0.5.0-1

[ericfreese]

Was able to reproduce with that .zshrc. Closing this as a dup of #379 just because it was reported first and posting this minimal .zshrc over there. Thanks @Ifnister!