Group descriptions need to be percent-expanded

[romkatv]

I had an old completion setting like this:

zstyle ':completion:*' format ' %F{yellow}-- %d --%f'

With fzf-tab it ended up like this:

Perhaps put ${(%)some_variable} somewhere?

[Aloxaf]

This is a known issue but I am not sure how to deal with it.

If I expand it, it will overwrite the group color.

I think keep them unexpanded will let users quickly realize that this is the problem of their own settings.

Of course it would be better if there is a better solution.

edit:

if anyone have this problem, add these lines to your zshrc

zstyle -d ':completion:*' format
zstyle ':completion:*:descriptions' format '[%d]'

[romkatv]

Fine with me.

[kakulukia]

Hmm @romkatv how can you call that an old setting, when its the default installing a fresh copy of prezto? Happened to me yesterday. Took me a while to figure out whats wrong.

[romkatv]

Hmm @romkatv how can you call that an old setting

When someone says "there is an old proverb", it doesn't mean this proverb is no longer used. It means it was used for the first time a long time ago. Likewise with an old setting, which I had in my zsh configs for a long time.

[montchr]

if anyone have this problem, add these lines to your zshrc

zstyle -d ':completion:*' format
zstyle ':completion:*:descriptions' format '[%d]'

Using this suggested [%d] format did not work for me. However, I noticed that in other comments (e.g. #98 (comment)), @Aloxaf suggests a format of -- %d --. That format did end up working for me, though I'm not sure why the original suggestion had no effect.