How to set tab for zsh autocompletion?

Question

I want to set tab for zsh autocomplition plugin. There is related part of config:

# Widgets that accept the entire suggestion
(( ! ${+ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_ACCEPT_WIDGETS} )) && {
        typeset -ga ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_ACCEPT_WIDGETS
        ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_ACCEPT_WIDGETS=(
                forward-char
                end-of-line
                tab-char //my line
                vi-forward-char
                vi-end-of-line
                vi-add-eol
        )
}

What is the convention for char names used? How does tab named?

Bever

Answer 1

You will have to put

bindkey '       ' autosuggest-accept

into your .zshrc file. Notice that the space between the apostrophe is one keystroke of the tab-character. This works similarly with every other character or character combination. If you for example wanted to put a combination of the ctrl+space keys to trigger the acception, you'd append

bindkey '^ ' autosuggest-accept

to the file.

Here's a link to the Configuration-file, where this is explained: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions#key-bindings

Hamm

and how to bind tab? – Bever

I think you have one more space or something, I have copy pasted and it wasn't working. The best way is to directly type bindkey '' autosuggest-accept and then place the cursor in between the tick and press tab. – Incardination

Note that typically modern editors are set to expand the tab key to spaces, which would prevent this from working. – Fdic

Answer 2

For all of you that are struggling with the accepted answer, I got it to work doing the following:

bindkey '^I' autosuggest-accept

...where '^I' is tab.

Skeptical

This worked for me. +1. – Viviparous

I guess it's showing ^I because you are using vim and used :set list – Jumbled

on Mac M1, I needed to do bindkey '^I' expand-or-complete – Kentigera

Answer 3

In the .zshrc file:

bindkey '^I'   complete-word       # tab          | complete
bindkey '^[[Z' autosuggest-accept  # shift + tab  | autosuggest

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/532#issuecomment-907361899

Intromit

complete-word works for me. Thanks! – Gormand

This is great. Works on Mac and is exactly the right combination to use zsh-autocomplete and zsh-autosuggestions together. – Cavill

Answer 4

this seems to work as expected in your ~/.zshrc:

bindkey '\t' autosuggest-accept

If you want to know more, you can click here

Wembley

This was the only solution that worked for me. On Ubuntu 22LTS, Gnome and VSCode. – Contagion

Answer 5

I know this is a bit old, but leaving it here for those who try to use this later.

What I am using is

bindkey '^I^I' autosuggest-accept

If I press tab key twice in succession, it completes the command. If I tap tab once and leave I can use the shell's suggestions and cycle through them.

Hemphill