expansion doesn't trigger syntax highlighting

[DanielFGray]

I use zsh-syntax-highlighting, and expanding a suggestion seems to 'break' syntax highlighting until another key is pressed.

[ericfreese]

This is not expected behavior. Can you give some details about your setup (OS, zsh version, plugin version)? It would also be helpful if you could provide minimum steps to reproduce the problem.

For example, I'm not seeing the issue with Mac OS X, zsh 5.2, z-asug v0.3.1, z-sy-h v0.4.1, and the following:

% zsh -f
%% source zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh; source zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
%% echo hello
%% echo <expand suggestion>

[DanielFGray]

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and zsh 5.1.1 with oh-my-zsh. I also have another machine running Arch and zsh 5.2 + omz that does the same thing, both plugins are git pulled daily via cron on all machines.

In my zshrc with omz, I use plugins=( vi-mode zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions ) swapping the order of those two doesn't make a difference.

Even without omz, and manually sourcing as per your example above, expanding doesn't trigger syntax highlighting of the expanded text..

[nifr]

Same issue here. The expanded part is not being syntax-highlighted after accepting a suggestion with <Ctrl>+<Space>.

Adding another space after expansion triggers syntax-highlighting correctly but most of the times you just want to run the suggested command as next step which leaves half of the command non-highlighted.

[eigengrau]

FWIW, while I haven’t tried to further identify the cause so far, I was able to work around this issue by calling zle redisplay; zle redisplay; (yes, twice) after the autosuggest-accept widget runs (I achieved this by wrapping and ignoring the accept widget).

[ratheesh]

@eigengrau Can you please paste the patch for others to use the workaround ?

[eigengrau]

I didn’t patch the sources, only wrapped the widget in my .zshrc like this:

my-autosuggest-accept() {
    zle autosuggest-accept
    zle redisplay
    zle redisplay
}

zle -N my-autosuggest-accept

ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_IGNORE_WIDGETS+=my-autosuggest-accept

bindkey '^ ' my-autosuggest-accept

[ratheesh]

@eigengrau Thank you. it works.