autosuggestion not working for oh-my-zsh

[b33f00d]

So I thought my autosuggestion was working, I had ran this command source .oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh and it was working fine, but right after I closed the terminal and opened up again the auto suggestion quit working. Any help?

[ericfreese]

You need to configure OMZ to load zsh-autosuggestions on every start-up. Add zsh-autosuggestions to the list of OMZ plugins as described in step 2 of the OMZ installation instructions: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/INSTALL.md#oh-my-zsh

[b33f00d]

Yea so I have that already in my .zshrc but still nothing and I restarted the terminal already.

[ericfreese]

Ok I'm not sure why that wouldn't be working then. Maybe there is a typo or something? You could always add the manual source line to your .zshrc.

[b33f00d]

That seemed to work. Thanks

[AshGrowem]

⚠️ Be sure iTerm's "Background" and "ANSI Normal Black" are set to two distinctly different colors!

iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Colors > ANSI Colors > Bright > Black
iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Colors > Basic Colors > Background

@yuungH4x0r I had the same problem. Turns out I had the autosuggestion color (ANSI Bright Black) set exactly the same as my iTerm background so they blended together perfectly and I just couldn't see it 😅

[DeMol-EE]

⚠️ Make sure iTerm's "Background" and "ANSI Normal Black" are set to two distinctly different colors!

iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Colors > ANSI Colors > Bright > Black
iTerm > Preferences > Profiles > Colors > Basic Colors > Background

@yuungH4x0r I had the same problem. Turns out I had the autosuggestion color (ANSI Bright Black) set exactly the same as my iTerm background so they blended together perfectly and I just couldn't see it 😅

Could this perhaps be added to the README somewhere, under troubleshooting?

[ericfreese]

Could this perhaps be added to the README somewhere, under troubleshooting?

Good idea! Please feel free to write something up and send a PR.

[huwllewellyn]

I was missing the repo. To fix I ran:
$ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

running git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions solved this for me.

[keidarcy]

for me, messed up zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-completions.
I know it's stupid, but it cost me 5 minutes -_-
hope you don't ;)

[bayronq]

thanks.