"Do you wish to see all Possibilities?" triggered with group description colors

[marlonrichert]

Discussed in #646

^{Originally posted by har-si September 28, 2023}
I added the below line to my .zshrc to change the color of the group description in my completion (described in #618 ):

zstyle ':completion:*:*:descriptions' format '%F{blue}%d%f'

The group description color changes to Blue, but it triggered the "Do you wish to see all __ Possibilities?" prompt which is very annoying when typing your commands.

When I removed this zstyle ':completion:*:*:descriptions' format '%F{blue}%d%f' line in my .zshrc, everything went back to its normal behavior (no more annoying prompt).

I have read from previous discussion #625 that this is a bug. Is it possible to disable the "Do you wish to see all __ Possibilities?" prompt while having colored group descriptions?

btw, I installed zsh-autocomplete manually and my zsh version is 5.8 (x86_64-debian-linux-gnu).

Thanks a lot!

[chrisgrieser]

Removing one instance of :* fixes this issue for me in most – but not all – cases:

zstyle ':completion:*:descriptions' format '%F{blue}%d%f'

[chrisgrieser]

Hah, I think I found a method that is working: using escape codes for the ansi colors instead of %F{blue}:

zstyle ':completion:*:*:descriptions' format $'\033[1;34m%d\033[0m'

This effectively achieves the same effect, but does not result in the "do you wish to see all possibilities" prompt

[har-si]

Hah, I think I found a method that is working: using escape codes for the ansi colors instead of %F{blue}:

zstyle ':completion:*:*:descriptions' format $'\033[1;34m%d\033[0m'

This effectively achieves the same effect, but does not result in the "do you wish to see all possibilities" prompt

This is a great workaround. It does not trigger the "do you wish to see all possibilities" prompt. Thank you for the help @chrisgrieser

[unode]

Hi all, I'm also looking for a way to disable the prompt.

In my case it gets triggered when using fasd (e.g. z - z followed by space) and other commands that have a long completion.

% z 
zsh: do you wish to see all 291 possibilities (291 lines)?

As the prompt gets triggered while typing it sometimes 'steals' keystrokes interrupting what I'm typing.
I now have zstyle ':autocomplete:*' delay 0.15 which helps a bit with the "stealing" aspect but it's still annoying so I would like to identify a way to avoid that confirmation prompt entirely.
I also tried asking here and there but so far haven't found a way through.

Does either of you have suggestions or additional pointers?