Filling zsh tab messes up command line formatting

Question

I run zsh with oh-my-zsh on OS X. Every time I use zsh awesome tab-completion, the formatting at the current command prompt is really screwed up. For instance:

I type cd fo and try filling out a tab for the "foo" directory; zsh requests completion, but changes the command line to cd fo cd fo while it waits for completion. It doesn’t matter, but it’s very annoying. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem before, my solution disables some zsh plugins. The second possibility is that your color theme may contain an error that causes this.

 # Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/ # Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse) plugins=(git) 

This is the final version of my plugin section in the ~ / .zshrc file. Any other plugin between brackets may be the cause of your situation.

If your problem is still ongoing, you need to send a ~/.zshrc message so that we can check what is there.

Answer 2

I had the same issue on PopOS and Arch Linux. I tried several solutions from different places, but the only solution that helped me was the proposal from romkatv on the oh-my-zsh github repository.

The solution is to make a copy of the .zsh-theme file of any theme that you use in oh-my-zsh and surround all non-ASCII characters (e.g. emoticons) with %{%G<CHARACTER>%}

For example, the standard oh-my-zsh robbyrussel contains 2 non-ASCII characters. The ➜ symbol in the invitation

 PROMPT="%(?:%{$fg_bold[green]%}➜ :%{$fg_bold[red]%}➜ )" 

and the symbol '✗' in the git directories prompt

 ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="%{$fg[blue]%}) %{$fg[yellow]%}✗" 

Using %{%G<character>%} around two non-ASCII characters like this

 PROMPT="%(?:%{$fg_bold[green]%}➜ :%{$fg_bold[red]%}%{%G➜%} )" 

and this

 ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="%{$fg[blue]%}) %{$fg[yellow]%}%{%G✗%}" 

solved the problem for me.