Completions not working without OMZ

[amitsingh-007]

I am currently using antidote and have OMZ enabled as well. Here are my configs:

#.zshrc
ZSH_THEME=""

# Load antidote and plugins
source ~/.antidote/antidote.zsh
antidote load

# Load pure theme
autoload -Uz promptinit && promptinit && prompt pure

#.zsh_plugins.txt
getantidote/use-omz        # handle OMZ dependencies
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh path:lib   # load OMZ's library

# prompts:
sindresorhus/pure     kind:fpath

# plugins
lukechilds/zsh-nvm kind:defer
# marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete kind:defer
zsh-users/zsh-completions kind:defer
zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting kind:defer
zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions kind:defer

This works perfectly. But I want to load these plugins without OMZ as I think OMZ slows the loading. So I tried the following as specified in the antidote documentation:

#.zsh_plugins.txt
# marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete kind:defer
zsh-users/zsh-completions kind:defer

belak/zsh-utils path:completion

# prompts:
sindresorhus/pure     kind:fpath

# plugins
lukechilds/zsh-nvm kind:defer
zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting kind:defer
zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions kind:defer

But this doesn't work. Also marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete plugin also doesn't work. I have tried removing defer also but it doesn't help.
I am new to zsh so I don't know what I am doing wrong here. Any help is appreciated. TIA

[mattmc3]

Thank you for opening this discussion! It's the push I needed to finally release a new mattmc3/ez-compinit plugin.

When I first created antidote, I was fully committed to antidote not treating any plugins or frameworks in special ways, same as its predecessor antibody. A Zsh plugin is a plugin, so if plugins don't interact well then that's not an antidote problem. I'm still fully committed to that. But, the trouble has been that while that makes for a much better plugin manager, it makes for a much worse user experience. I fixed that experience for OMZ users by releasing the getantidote/use-omz plugin which helps antidote users of OMZ, but compinit is still a pain for non-OMZ users. So, now there's a stand alone plugin you can use mattmc3/ez-compinit. It's not antidote specific which is why it's not hosted on getantidote - it's a general use Zsh plugin, but it solves a lot of issues users of antidote have. I'll be updating the antidote docs today to recommend this plugin for setting up completions.

Give it a try and let me know what you think. Your .zsh_plugins.txt should look like this:

#.zsh_plugins.txt
mattmc3/ez-compinit
marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
zsh-users/zsh-completions

# prompts:
sindresorhus/pure

# plugins
lukechilds/zsh-nvm
zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting
zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

I also really don't recommend using kind:defer for most plugins, and definitely not before you have a working config. See caveats here.

[amitsingh-007]

I tried the new plugin but completions still doesn't work. Here's the updated code:

#.zsh_plugins.txt

mattmc3/ez-compinit
marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

# zsh-users/zsh-completions
belak/zsh-utils path:editor
belak/zsh-utils path:history
belak/zsh-utils path:prompt
belak/zsh-utils path:utility
belak/zsh-utils path:completion

# prompts:
sindresorhus/pure

# plugins

lukechilds/zsh-nvm
zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting
zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
peterhurford/up.zsh

[mattmc3]

Can you share more about what isn't working? I used your config and it works for me.

[amitsingh-007]

This is the exact config that I am running:

#.zsh_plugins.txt

mattmc3/ez-compinit
marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
belak/zsh-utils path:editor
belak/zsh-utils path:history
belak/zsh-utils path:prompt
belak/zsh-utils path:utility
belak/zsh-utils path:completion

# prompts:
sindresorhus/pure     kind:fpath

# plugins
lukechilds/zsh-nvm kind:defer
zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting kind:defer
zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions kind:defer

Behaviour when using marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete with OMZ:

Using.with.OMZ.mp4

Behaviour when using marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete with above config:

Without.OMZ.mp4

[mattmc3]

If you use "mattmc3/ez-compinit", then "belak/zsh-utils path:completion" is redundant. No reason to have both.

After reading the README for "marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete", there's a bunch of extra setup you need to do, like adding variables to your .zshenv and settings to .zshrc. You might find you don't need "mattmc3/ez-compinit" at all with that plugin. Try commenting out items in your zsh_plugins.txt and slowly adding back to see what breaks. At this point, it's clearly a problem with conflicting plugins or incorrect setup, not anything antidote does.

[amitsingh-007]

I was able to make all my plugins work and completions same as before with this config:

#.zsh_plugins.txt

# prompts
sindresorhus/pure     kind:fpath

# plugins (NOTE: order matters)
zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting
marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
lukechilds/zsh-nvm
mattmc3/zephyr path:plugins/color
mattmc3/zephyr path:plugins/environment

The key for getting directory show up in autocomplete was mattmc3/zephyr path:plugins/environment. I couldn't make it work with belak/zsh-utils. I am happy my config is concise by using Antidote and loading is super fast now. The colors are not same as before but its still okay. I also like I am using more plugins created by you.
Thanks for the help.