zsh-syntax-highlighting compatibility

[nicoulaj]

Hi, Did you get auto-fu working with zsh-syntax-highlighting ? I tried activating both but it seems highlighting takes precedence over auto-fu. Do you need us to make some change to improve compatibility ?

[hchbaw]

I'm very sorry. It seems that auto-fu needs some more coordination codes to play nice more with zsh-syntax-highlighting.

I will work on it.

[ghost]

I hope this happens soon; this looks like it would be cool to use if it weren't incompatible.

[ascii-soup]

This is the thing stopping me from using auto fu. Any progress to report?

[hchbaw]

Hi! Thank you for your interest!

You can play with it in the branch thb or pu.

It may have some minor bugs, especially I don't have time to play it without zsh-syntax-highlighting environment. I will merge it into master if I'm sure it is in a good shape which do not break without zsh-syntax-highlighting.

I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.

Please note that both these branches other than master will be rewind sometime as you can see (as with git itself).

[ascii-soup]

I can confirm that both of those branches work well with zsh-syntax-highlighting. Thank you very much! I will set it all up at work tomorrow so I can use it "in anger" and give it some real testing :) Thanks again!

[RobertAudi]

I just tried both branches and they make zsh and the Terminal crash. Any progress on that please?

[hchbaw]

Hi @AzizLight, thank you very much for your interest.

Please show your zsh setup. I cannot reproduce any crashes here. I did this possibly simplest procedure to get it working.

% echo "PS1='%% '" >| .zshrc
% exec ${SHELL} ${SHELL_ARGS-} "$@"
% echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.0.2
% git clone -q -n https://github.com/hchbaw/auto-fu.zsh.git
% (cd auto-fu.zsh && git checkout -q origin/pu)
% git clone -q https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
% cat - <<'EOT' >> .zshrc
heredoc> autoload -Uz compinit; compinit
heredoc> . ./zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
heredoc> . ./auto-fu.zsh/auto-fu.zsh
heredoc> zle-line-init () auto-fu-init; zle -N zle-line-init
heredoc> EOT
% exec ${SHELL} ${SHELL_ARGS-} "$@"
% ls
-azfu-
ls           lsb_release  lscpu        lsmod        lspgpot
lsar         lsblk        lshal        lsof         lssu
lsattr       lscp         lsinitramfs  lspci        lsusb

In this example, I've got ls at the command line is colored and completion choices are shown. So it seems working.

[RobertAudi]

Hi @hchbaw

Thanks for the fast answer. I should have read the README before posting a stupid comment, Sorry! I had forgotten to add the zle-line-init () auto-fu-init; zle -N zle-line-init line to my .zshrc...

However, there is still some odd behaviour. For instance, when I type l it autocompletes to LANG= and then if I type s it completes to LANG=sk_SK so I can't use ls anymore... Any ideas on what I'm missing please?

[hchbaw]

Hi @AzizLight, thankyou reporting back.

Ugh, I have not heard such a wired behavior. Theoretically, auto-fu.zsh does the almost same thing that it just hits the TAB after each input at the command line. So, it should help to do a same thing without auto-fu.zsh; just enter an l letter, then hit TAB and watching the result could help to identify problems.

It seems to me that the first completion match has been actually automatically inserted on the command line. It could help to see the completion system setup. If you don't mind, please show your zstyle -L ':completion:*'.

[RobertAudi]

Hi @hchbaw Thanks a lot for you patience and your support :+1: What you are saying makes a lot of sense. I am using zshuery, which is a drastically more lightweight version of oh-my-zsh. When I press l<TAB> without auto-fu, I see the same behaviour.

My ZSH skills are dire, but I think that's the snippet of code from zshuery that sets up completion:

# Completion
load_completion() {
    # http://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/kbeoe/you_can_make_readline_and_bash_much_more_user/
    # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh
    autoload -U compinit
    fpath=($* $fpath)
    fignore=(.DS_Store $fignore)
    compinit -i
    zmodload -i zsh/complist
    setopt complete_in_word
    setopt auto_remove_slash
    unsetopt always_to_end
    has_brew && compctl -K _gimme gimme
    [[ -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts ]] && hosts=(`awk '{print $1}' ~/.ssh/known_hosts | tr ',' '\n' `)
    [[ -f ~/.ssh/config ]] && hosts=($hosts `grep '^Host' ~/.ssh/config | sed s/Host\ // | egrep -v '^\*$'`)
    [[ -f /var/lib/misc/ssh_known_hosts ]] && hosts=($hosts `awk -F "[, ]" '{print $1}' /var/lib/misc/ssh_known_hosts | sort -u`)
    zstyle ':completion:*' insert-tab pending
    zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}' 'r:|[._-]=* r:|=*' 'l:|=* r:|=*'
    highlights='${PREFIX:+=(#bi)($PREFIX:t)(?)*==31=1;32}':${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}}
    highlights2='=(#bi) #([0-9]#) #([^ ]#) #([^ ]#) ##*($PREFIX)*==1;31=1;35=1;33=1;32=}'
    zstyle -e ':completion:*' list-colors 'if [[ $words[1] != kill && $words[1] != strace ]]; then reply=( "'$highlights'" ); else reply=( "'$highlights2'" ); fi'
    unset highlights
    zstyle ':completion:*' completer _complete _match _approximate
    zstyle ':completion:*' squeeze-slashes true
    zstyle ':completion:*' expand 'yes'
    zstyle ':completion:*:match:*' original only
    zstyle ':completion:*:approximate:*' max-errors 1 numeric
    zstyle ':completion:*:hosts' hosts $hosts
    zstyle ':completion::complete:*' use-cache 1
    zstyle ':completion::complete:*' cache-path ./cache/
    zstyle ':completion:*:cd:*' ignore-parents parent pwd
    zstyle ':completion:*:mpg321:*' file-patterns '*.(mp3|MP3):mp3\ files *(-/):directories'
    zstyle ':completion:*:ogg123:*' file-patterns '*.(ogg|OGG):ogg\ files *(-/):directories'
    zstyle ':completion:*:kill:*:processes' list-colors '=(#b) #([0-9]#) ([0-9a-z-]#)*=01;34=0=01'
    zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:processes' command "ps -u `whoami` -o pid,user,comm -w -w"

}

I also have this line in my .zshrc:

# ...so that I can select the completions with the arrow
# keys after the first press of tab
zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:*' menu yes select

Hope it helps. I will investigate the problem myself as well.

Again, thanks a lot

Aziz

[RobertAudi]

@hchbaw Thanks for your patience and your support! :+1: With the help of guys in the #zsh IRC channel on Freenode, I managed to fix the problem. I just removed the following line from my .zshrc and it worked fine:

# ...so that I can select the completions with the arrow
# keys after the first press of tab
zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:*' menu yes select

Again thanks a lot :+1:

Aziz

[CJD14]

I know this is a pretty old issue, and in fact one of the first, but I just wanted to confirm that this is still working on the latest versions of all of these plugins, with zsh-syntaxhighlighting, zsh-autocompletion, and this. worked perfectly when sourced and setup in the correct order in your zshrc. syntax first, autocompl, next and then auto-fu finally and perfect results. Great job on this.

[sunaku]

No such luck here. :sob:

Loading zsh-syntax-highlighting before auto-fu (in both tbh and pu branches) gives me this error:

$ zsh -f
yantram% source bundle/1/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
yantram% source bundle/3/auto-fu.zsh
yantram% with-afu-zle-rebinding:10: command not found: afu-zle-aysce-install

-azfu-

Loading zsh-syntax-highlighting before auto-fu (in master branch) gives me this error:

$ zsh -f
yantram% source bundle/1/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
yantram% source bundle/3/auto-fu.zsh
Cannot rebind self-insert: user:_zsh_highlight_widget_self-insert
Cannot rebind backward-delete-char: user:_zsh_highlight_widget_backward-delete-char
Cannot rebind backward-kill-word: user:_zsh_highlight_widget_backward-kill-word
Cannot rebind kill-line: user:_zsh_highlight_widget_kill-line
Cannot rebind kill-whole-line: user:_zsh_highlight_widget_kill-whole-line
Cannot rebind kill-word: user:_zsh_highlight_widget_kill-word
Cannot rebind magic-space: user:_zsh_highlight_widget_magic-space
yantram%
-azfu-

In contrast, loading auto-fu (in master branch) by itself works correctly:

$ zsh -f
yantram% source bundle/3/auto-fu.zsh
yantram% z
-azfu-
zcat           zegrep         zformat        zipdetails     zjsdecode      zmodload       zsh
zcmp           zeisstopnm     zgrep          zipgrep        zle            zmore          zsh4
zcompile       zenity         zic            zipinfo        zle-line-init  znew           zsh5
zdiff          zfgrep         zip            zipnote        zless          zparseopts     zstyle
zdump          zforce         zipcloak       zipsplit       zlib-flate     zregexparse

How did you make this work? :scream: Could you share your exact config files?

[CJD14]

Definitely as soon as I am home and get a chance tonight. But did you follow the process in hchbaws comment? Try this:

as hchbaw stated above

git clone -q -n https://github.com/hchbaw/auto-fu.zsh.git
% (cd auto-fu.zsh && git checkout -q origin/pu)
% git clone -q https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
% cat - <<'EOT' >> .zshrc
heredoc> autoload -Uz compinit; compinit
heredoc> . ./zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
heredoc> . ./auto-fu.zsh/auto-fu.zsh
heredoc> zle-line-init () auto-fu-init; zle -N zle-line-init
heredoc> EOT

Finally restart zsh or simply source your zshrc.

You could also try this. Based on memory this was how my zshrc was setup.

source ~/zsh/dir/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

autoload -Uz compinit; compinit
source ~/zsh/dir/auto-fu.zsh
zle-line-init () auto-fu-init; zle -N zle-line-init

Of coarse adjust accordingly to your directories. I checked out pu branch as well. I also used antigen to DL and load syntax-highlighting plugin as well as a bunch more. But the last three lines are how my zshrc looks at the very bottom. Try that.

[CJD14]

@sunaku

here is my zshrc file

https://github.com/CJD14/dotfiles/blob/master/zshrc

I also added hchbaw's list-colors.zsh plugin as well to this and just got it working, so that's what you see at very bottom of file now.