zsh-syntax-highlighting paste performance improvement

zsh-syntax-highlighting paste performance improvement

Add the following in .zshrc:

...
plugins=(osx git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-nvm docker kubectl)
...

### Fix slowness of pastes with zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
pasteinit() {
  OLD_SELF_INSERT=${${(s.:.)widgets[self-insert]}[2,3]}
  zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic # I wonder if you'd need `.url-quote-magic`?
}

pastefinish() {
  zle -N self-insert $OLD_SELF_INSERT
}
zstyle :bracketed-paste-magic paste-init pasteinit
zstyle :bracketed-paste-magic paste-finish pastefinish
### Fix slowness of pastes

source ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
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Was facing slow paste in VS Code terminal, this fixed it!

THANKS!

Thanks for this!

In my case,
WSL Terminal is faster than before ( still took like 5s+ )
but in VSCode terminal, it only took 2secs

Weirdly, in WSLTerminal you can see the word is being pasted, but not in VSCode
Any insight ? Thanks

Not sure if sourcing ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh is needed. The original fix didn't need that step.

Great, thx, works wonders! Sourcing was not needed for me.

Thanks, works quite well.

Worked for me too. Thanks! (Didn't need the source statement at the end though)

Thanks. It's worked for me.

I found that this worked as well: zstyle ':bracketed-paste-magic' active-widgets '.self-*'. I found the solution here: zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting#295 (comment).
@magicdude4eva Do you know if there are any major differences between your solution and the one provided in the issue in the link I provided?

I do not think so - I just tried a number of things until performance was alright. I have honestly not looked at this since 2019. Surprised that this is seemingly not fixed and requires still a workaround.

Worked perfectly for me - no more lags when pasting from the clipboard! 🎉

As someone new to zsh && oh-my-zsh, thanks !

Thanks worked

It's amazing! thank you so much for this, to paste now is so fast!

It's amazing! thank you so much for this, to paste now is so fast!

Thanks! it worked.

Are we required to source zsh-syntax-highlighting ?

Are we required to source zsh-syntax-highlighting ?

I've disabled sourcing zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh and the fix still works.

Thanks, worked like charm @magicdude4eva when I visit your neighborhood, beer is on Me. Cheers

Thanks! works for me :)

it works for me, thanks

Please submit to the zsh-syntax-highlighting maintainer as well.