`cd` completions not working with `z` (zoxide) as cd

[adriangalilea]

`cd` completions not working with `z` (zoxide) as cd

[sobolevn]

I will have to figure this out :) Will do quite soon.

[sobolevn]

Hi! Thanks a lot, I'm really pleased that you like it!

zoxide completion is done here:

dotfiles/shell/.completions

Lines 68 to 79 in ed0b29c

	# complete `zoxide`
	_z () {
	# I have a custom completion, because I like `z NAME<TAB>`
	# and not `z NAME<SPACE><TAB>`
	local args
	args="$(zoxide query -a -l)"
	_arguments "1:paths:($args)"
	}
	compdef _z z
	zstyle ':fzf-tab:complete:(\\|*/|)z:*' fzf-preview \
	'_fzf_complete_realpath "$word"'

It is quite complex. First of all, take a look here, this is how z is defined:

dotfiles/shell/.external

Lines 59 to 71 in ed0b29c

	# === z ===
	# https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
	# `zoxide` has an option to use `fzf` to provide completions natively,
	# but it works only for `z NAME<SPACE><TAB>`,
	# it does not work for `z NAME<TAB>`.
	# So, I have this usecase as a custom completion defined in `.completions`.
	eval "$(zoxide init zsh --no-cmd)"
	z () {
	# I need this function to setup custom code completion for `zoxide`.
	\__zoxide_z "$@"
	}

Then, redefine it to cd (or use both). It should work.

[adriangalilea]

Found the cause albeit a bit weird I think:

~  master ✔                                                                                                                                                                                           130 ⚠️
» z --version
zoxide: no match found
                                                                                                                                                                                                            
~  master ✔                                                                                                                                                                                             1 ⚠️
» zoxide --version
zoxide 0.9.4

Once I aliased z to zoxide then aliasing cd to z worked, I find weird that nothing was complaining when I did cd, and it even seemed to be triggering zoxide actually, but without it the completions didn't work.

Thanks!

P.S.: I tried cd tab the window displays, I select one directory, enter then I try tab and it doesn't trigger the window, so how do I select further down the tree?

could you clarify how this work?

[adriangalilea]

P.S.: I tried cd tab the window displays, I select one directory, enter then I try tab and it doesn't trigger the window, so how do I select further down the tree?

could you clarify how this work?

Wait nvm, this now somehow works, but I lost the window pane on the right

Any idea?

Sorry to be bothering you with this.

EDIT: if I remove the

# alias z="zoxide"
# alas cd="z"

The window pane now appears again, but if I add them it doesn't work.

[adriangalilea]

Just to recap for your ease whenever you look at this:

In dotfiles-rpi/.shell/.completions Line 13

alias cd="z"

If I keep the alias cd="z" alias:

The right window pane disappears.

It also seems that:

cd .shell

error: unrecognized subcommand '.shell'

Usage: zoxide <COMMAND>

For more information, try '--help'.

cd command no longer works.

If I remove the alias cd="z" alias:

The right window pane reappears but I don't have zoxide as `cd` which is the way I like to have `cd`

Also if I try directly with z tab

It also shows that z completions are not working.

The rest of the commands preserve the right pane in both cases

[adriangalilea]

@sobolevn found it, first, I think you use z and cd separately hence the 2 different flows, second, bat was always failing inside them causing further problems due the fact that in some systems, bat doesn't exists as is named batcat and when .zshenv loads it doesn't have the alias set, so I just aliased first line in .zshenv and is working fine :)

Is there any reason why you use both z and cd separately? isn't the point of zoxide that it learns your most visited directories when actually using it?

[sobolevn]

Yes, I use them separatelly. Because I am used to older z-jump or something, which didn't have the same features as cd does. So, my workflow is different for cd and z.