Re: Is it possible to disable cursor movement when running completion?

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

[sorry about replying privately before, the gmail interface is pretty
broken these days]

On 4/11/19, Eric Freese <ericdfreese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you don't want any completions offered, you can simply not press tab.
>
> Makes sense. Unfortunately I'm needing to apply the answer to this question
> to
> a more complex use case.
>
> I'm using a pty (via zpty module) to capture the first completion result to
> display as a suggestion in zsh-autosuggestions plugin. See the GitHub pull
> request here: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/pull/401 and
> the
> issue that triggered this question here:
> https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/354
>
> I'm wondering if there is a zstyle that I can set to avoid this
> cursor-moving
> behavior. I've scanned through the documentation and haven't seen anything,
> but
> I feel like I could easily be missing something.

This isn't really a supported usecase at all, but I think the state of
the art hack for it is still
https://github.com/Valodim/zsh-capture-completion

-- 
Mikael Magnusson