How to install knu/zsh-manydots-magic

[protist]

I've been struggling with this for a while, although I feel it should be simple. Sorry if this is stupid question!

How do I install knu/zsh-manydots-magic?

I've tried permutations of the following in ~/.zimrc (individually) then zimfw install, but all fail

zmodule knu/zsh-manydots-magic
zmodule /path/to/zsh-manydots-magic/manydots-magic
zmodule knu/zsh-manydots-magic --autoload manydots-magic --cmd manydots-magic

I can see the GitHub repo was downloaded to ~/.zim/modules/zsh-manydots-magic.

It does work if I manually move the manydots-magic file into a directory from $fpath, and put the commands as per the repo into ~/.zshrc:

autoload -Uz manydots-magic
manydots-magic

What is the "zim-way" to install this?

[ericbn]

Hi @protist.

Looking at knu/zsh-manydots-magic's how-to-set-up instructions, it mentions:

• "Put the file manydots-magic somewhere in your $fpath"
• autoload -Uz manydots-magic
• manydots-magic

This translates to:
zmodule knu/zsh-manydots-magic --fpath . --autoload manydots-magic --cmd manydots-magic

I've also faced the knu/zsh-manydots-magic#2 issue, regardless of initializing the module with Zim or manually adding the initialization code to my .zshrc file. Had to disable zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions to make it work.

[ericbn]

FYI, the double-dot-expand feature in Zim's input module does the minimal of what zsh-manydoes-magic does, but in 13 lines of code.

This works:

• ruby -e '(1...
• git log branch...

But this does not work:

• git diff ...branch
• the backspace key automatically deleting the last group

[ericbn]

This worked for me with zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions:

zmodule twang817/zsh-manydots-magic --name twang817-manydots-magic --fpath . --autoload manydots-magic --cmd manydots-magic

(I'm just using the name to install this in a separate directory)

[protist]

Thanks for all that info. Unfortunately I still can't get it working. It's not my server and it has zsh 5.2 installed, so I tried to run zsh 5.8 instead. That still came up with an error, but slightly different.

_zsh_highlight_call_widget: maximum nested function level reached; increase FUNCNEST?

Since the "manual install" version works for both version (as per the original post), I suspect that it's still possibly something to do with Zim?

[ericbn]

Can you share your complete .z{shenv,profile,shrc,login,logout,imrc} files? Maybe we can try to reproduce it in an isolated Docker container?

[protist]

Sorry for the delay. I spent some time troubleshooting this, trying to get a minimal failing config. It turns out that I had this error because I had remnants of an older zim install in ~/.zshrc, which was sourcing zim.zsh init -q and init.zsh twice! Once I removed the duplicate commands, it worked perfectly.

Thanks for all your help!