I'm moving away from Windows (yay!) and need to bring a few features with me. Microsoft added this auto complete feature to PowerShell recently and I need something similar:
I found this package which is helpful, but it requires you to hit tab before you get a list of suggested commands: https://wiki.debian.org/Add%20Bash%20Completion
Do I need a different shell entirely? I'm using bash on Debian now.
13 Comments
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 1y
Use fish as your command line shell, it's doing exactly that and way more.
It's so intuitive and useful that I forgot that it was not part of the standard shell.
splendoruranium@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1y
It... it never occurred to me to use a different shell. Hm. Maybe I should.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Installed. Thanks!
BenPranklin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Definitely doable with zsh plugins. There are some options for bash like this but ive never used them
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y
I recommend starship in combination with fish
Botzo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I've not encountered this for bash.
The usual recommendation is to use Ctrl+r and do lookups when you need them.
Auto-suggestions are built into the fish shell and easily added to zsh. I haven't explored beyond those in a long time.
I hesitate to recommend changing shells for a newbie, but plenty of distros are using alternatives out of the box (usually zsh).
The typical journey for a newbie power user is a switch to zsh and an installation of oh-my-zsh, and then you can install zsh-autosuggestions as a plugin.
I wouldn't recommend fish shell to you yet, but only because you're new enough on your journey to be copy-pasting and fish isn't posix compliant which could throw you off occasionally. (This will probably bait some fish fanatics).
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
As a fish fanatic, I agree completely.
taaz@biglemmowski.win · 8 pts · 1y
Tab completion is the thing on linux, you can probably get something similar with zsh and it's plugins, maybe with fish too.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
Fish has it built-in.
It is, after all, a command line shell for the 90s.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y
Are you sure you cannot get used to the double-Tab?
It has everything you ask for and more; except for the visual in your screenshot.
If the answer really is No, you'll have to move away from bash for interactive shells.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
Is Ctrl+R good enough for you? I use it all the time.
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
Stock ctrl-r is kinda shit but you can make it a lot better with McFly or Atuin.
ephos@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
You could be a mad lad like me and run PowerShell on Linux and as long as you have the PSReadline module you'll get this autocomplete. As others mentioned fish is also a great shell and I think with oh-my-bash and oh-my-zsh bash and zsh can do this as well.
I don't know if it has it but Nushell might also have something similar and feel a bit more natural coming from pwsh.
tldr; You can stick with pwsh or have tons of alternative options!