This effect also could be reproduced if you use any of fancy UTF-8 characters like arrow, “git branch” character and so on. Just remove this chars from prompt and duplication will not occur. Also adding export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to ~/.profile can help
You might want to try and remove any .zcompdump-(…) files you may have on your user’s home directory – using something like rm ~/.zcompdump* on a terminal, or some file browser – and then reload the .zschrc file with the command source ~/.zshrc or restart the terminal – whichever works best for you. See this … Read more
You can edit your ~/.zshrc and change/add the variable: ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE=’fg=value’ I have just tested the value from fg=8 to fg=5. I think fg stands for Foreground. ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE=’fg=5′ **OBS: Add the above line at the end of your zshrc (after loading the plugin) ** I have found another reference here.
TL;DR one-liner echo ‘autoload -Uz compinit && compinit’ >> ~/.zshrc && . ~/.zshrc this will enable completion in .zshrc and apply the setting to your current terminal session. Explanation: Actually, ZSH does know how to do git completion out of the box, but you need to turn on the completion feature itself (which from the … Read more
Note: This answer is from 2012. This fixed it for me: $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions Credit: a post on zsh mailing list EDIT: As pointed out by @biocyberman in the comments. You may need to update the owner of site-functions as well: $ sudo chown -R root:root /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions On my machine (OSX 10.9), … Read more