compatibility with fzf-tab?

[fujianyawa]

Hello, thanks for the amazing plugin!
But how can I make fzf-tab works alongside zsh-autocomplete?

Here's my .zshrc config:

source $ZSH/custom/plugins/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh

if [[ -r "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh" ]]; then
  source "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh"
fi

export "PATH=${PATH}:${HOME}/.local/bin"
export ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"

ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
ZSH_TMUX_AUTOSTART="true"

plugins=(
  alias-tips
  extract
  fd
  git
  ripgrep
  thefuck
  tmux
  # web search
  zsh-autopair
  zsh-autocomplete
  zsh-autosuggestions
  zsh-completions
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
  # load this last to make the ** keybind work
  fzf
  # fzf-tab
)

fpath+=${ZSH_CUSTOM:-${ZSH:-~/.oh-my-zsh}/custom}/plugins/zsh-completions/src
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

source /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/fzf
zstyle ':autocomplete:tab:*' fzf-completion yes
zstyle ':autocomplete:*' min-input 1

# my-fzf-tab() {
#   functions[compadd]=$functions[-ftb-compadd]
#   zle fzf-tab-complete
# }
# zle -N fzf-tab-complete
# bindkey "^I" fzf-tab-complete

[[ ! -f ~/.p10k.zsh ]] || source ~/.p10k.zsh
# import custom aliases and function
[ -f $HOME/.zsh_aliasrc ] && source $HOME/.zsh_aliasrc
[ -f $HOME/.profile ] && source $HOME/.profile

pokemon-colorscripts -r --no-title; tput setaf 4 && tput bold; fortune
typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_INSTANT_PROMPT=quiet

Uncommenting this
source $ZSH/custom/plugins/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh and plugins (#zsh-autocomplete ...)
Makes the fzf-tab to work, but I want to use zsh-autocomplete too.

And also the author of the fzf-tab suggest in this thread to either choose which one of plugins to use, Though It's nice to use both of the plugins.

[marlonrichert]

zstyle ':autocomplete:tab:*' fzf-completion yes lets you use Zsh Autocomplete with Fzf's official shell extensions. It does not provide compatibility with Fzf Tab.

I'm curious: How would you even expect this to work in practice, from the user's point of view?

[fujianyawa]

When would you expect Zsh Autocomplete to be used and when Fzf Tab?

Oh, I see I'll use Fzf tab if there's a lot a suggested result or a really long word I can fuzzily filter it and plus using it interactively is what i like I'm quite fond to fzf. And for the zsh autocomplete with the ahead completion it is cool, but for me the caveats is when selecting a suggestion navigating via the arrow keys it was bad experience for me, if there's a lot of suggested output navigating it down one by one would take a while and like I say it was a bad experience because if I navigate down it would automatically type the results for me but what if that's not what I'm looking for now I will try press backspace many times to erase the autocompleted output that i wasn't expected too ( I mean sure i can use alt+backspace to quickly clear the word) but it's such a hassle for and do type again If I couldn't find what I'm searching for. I think if the suggessted result filling up the screen searching fuzzily to look for the result is a nice option

TL;DR

[marlonrichert]

Ah, I see. That should definitely be possible, but I’ll have to look into it a bit first to figure out exactly how to make it work. I’ll get back to you later.

[fujianyawa]

Ah, I see. That should definitely be possible, but I’ll have to look into it a bit first to figure out exactly how to make it work. I’ll get back to you later.

Woah, cool... nice and Thank you very much!

[marlonrichert]

I made an issue for adding support: #501.

[matru]

I could not reply to #501 since it's locked. But I have an issue with fzf-tab compatbility. @marlonrichert you mentioned that everything should work out of the box, and if correct, tabbing should switch to fzf-tab menu while arrow keys to autocomplete. However this bugs out for me, if I restart shell it works fine until I missclick tab when there isn't any command typed in, then it's not possible to trigger fzf-tab with tab and autocomplete takes the lead, but in a buggy state, where pressing tab doesn't do anything, the listed options just blink, so I need to force another shell restart since now both things are rendered useless.