No such widget `.manydots-magic.orig.backward-delete-char'

[Jomik]

I am getting this issue after using zplug to load your code whenever I hit backspace.
No such widget `.manydots-magic.orig.backward-delete-char'
My config can be found here https://github.com/Jomik/dotfiles/blob/c92f8f78dabcb47bd275c90345907be3e26131db/home/zshrc

EDIT: Refer to actual commit and not master, for later usage if needed.

[mavam]

Looks like you're loading the plugin via zplug, Adding defer:2 fixed it for me:

zplug 'knu/zsh-manydots-magic', use:manydots-magic, defer:2

[knu]

I'm not using zplug. Is there anything I can do in manydots-magic?

[mavam]

Good question. The error message that crept up was probably occurring due to the order of how packages are loaded. The defer directive changes that order. In the README, you write:

If you are enabling url-quote-magic, make sure to load url-quote-magic first and then load manydots-magic.

I assume that this was the culprit.

[Jomik]

@mavam I wasn't enabling url-quote-magic at the time.
I've however gone to using fish shell now.

[Virako]

I fixed the error with the next: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368231/going-over-start-of-insert-action-in-z-shell-vi-mode

[twang817]

I've solved this problem for myself by loading it after zsh-autosuggestions:

zinit wait'0c' for \
    atload'_zsh_autosuggest_start' zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions \
    pick'manydots-magic' compile'manydots-magic' knu/zsh-manydots-magic \
    ;

EDIT: I actually think this may be in conflict with fast-syntax-highlighting, not zsh-autosuggestions.

[protist]

It looks like the recent zsh update to 5.8.1 has broken this for me too. Every time I press backspace, I get the same error and cannot delete text. I tried reverting to zsh 5.8 and backspace works perfectly again.

I'm not using zplug or url-quote-magic. I don't really understand either fix proposed by the two previous commentors, but this might be something new and unrelated anyway.

[knu]

You need to respawn the shell after upgrading zsh as long as you use autoload. It's not specific to this widget.

[protist]

@knu Sorry I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean if I open a new zsh shell, then it should work fine? If so, this doesn't work for me. I am using the autoload method.

[protist]

I'm also using zim, and I thought I should update reinstall this too. After updating reinstalling, I can use the backspace key fine now (I don't get the error), but backspace just does its "normal" role, and doesn't delete groups of /..

[knu]

@protist Do you happen to have zsh-autosuggestions installed? I confirmed that zsh-autosuggestions overwrites LASTWIDGET that manydots-magit uses to know if backspace should delete the last /.. part. With it disabled, manydots-magic works fine for me including the backspace behavior.

[knu]

I think I'll loosen the conditions so that it only checks if LBUFFER ends with ../.. to see if backspace should delete the last /.. part.

[protist]

@knu Yes, that is exactly it! If I disable zsh-autosuggestions, manydots-magic's backspace functionally does indeed work. Thanks for the detective work!

[twang817]

You guys might take a look at this hack that I did to solve the problem for me:

twang817@6525d31

[protist]

Thank @twang817. I can confirm that with this fork I can both use zsh-autosuggestions and manydots-magic's backspace still works.

[kergoth]

You guys might take a look at this hack that I did to solve the problem for me:

twang817@6525d31

Just as an FYI, with your fork I get this instead:

_zsh_autosuggest_bound_1_manydots-magic.self-insert:74: maximum nested function level reached; increase FUNCNEST?