zsh-autosuggestions work in floating window, but not in 'normal' mode / quickfix window

[benwoodward]

Hopefully this is clear from the screenshots. When Floatterm is invoked with default floaterm_type, i.e. this global variable is not set, the terminal appears in a floating window, and suggestions from zsh-autosuggestions are visible.

However, if g:floaterm_type is set to 'normal', then they are not visible.

Another issue that is visible in these screenshots is that when the window type is set to 'normal' then the colorscheme is inherited from whatever has been set in my init.vim. However, in floating window mode the colorscheme is something else. I can create a separate issue for this if not answered here.

EDIT: Ideally I'd like a terminal in a fullscreen buffer with no borders that I can toggle with a shortcut. Is setting g:floaterm_width, and g:floaterm_height to 1 the best way to do that, or is there a better way? Do I even need this plugin to do that?

[voldikss]

EDIT: Ideally I'd like a terminal in a fullscreen buffer with no borders that I can toggle with a shortcut. Is setting g:floaterm_width, and g:floaterm_height to 1 the best way to do that, or is there a better way? Do I even need this plugin to do that?

You can use: terminal directly.

[benwoodward]

Same issue when I use :terminal, so maybe it's not an issue with vim-floaterm?

[voldikss]

Same issue when I use :terminal, so maybe it's not an issue with vim-floaterm?

It might be caused by the theme of your terminal app. Auto-suggestion works on my laptop when I use :terminal

[benwoodward]

I'm putting it down to this issue: neovim/neovim#7018

EDIT: Changing zsh-autosuggestions highlight colours makes them visible. I think the highlight colour I'm using isn't visible in :terminal due to the aforementioned Neovim bug.

Also figured out that I just needed to set the background colour to the same as my in-built colorscheme.

Thanks for building this. Really useful.

[benwoodward]

For anyone else with this issue, it's actually caused by iTerm color settings as described here: zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions#416 (comment)