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IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

23 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 4 stories, 19 comments · first 2020-12-13 · latest 2025-08-10

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  1. People do! See: https://pixi.carapace.sh/ or https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete It's still a hard problem as lots of tools format --help differently. One of the things I'm jealous in Poweshell is their standardized completions
    comment by bbkane · 2025-08-10 · in Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
  2. …specs, which is what powers this tool, are the only part of fig that is in fact Open Source https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
    comment by __jonas · 2024-08-25 · in Shell.how: Explain Shell Commands
  3. …which is good. Still, the core value of this product are the open-source autocomplete specs: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete . What's going to happen to that? It looks like they are still using it in the Amazon product. It should…
    comment by rmorey · 2024-03-12 · in Fig is sunsetting
  4. https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete is it this?
    comment by nextaccountic · 2023-11-06 · in Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete
  5. …possible to use them to re-implement a basic open-source version of the autocompletion product... https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
    comment by rmorey · 2023-08-28 · in Amazon acquires Fig
  6. You might find Fig completion specs useful for this: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
    comment by mschrage · 2022-09-16 · in Building the Future of the Command Line
  7. …individual use and for open-source projects! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor [1] https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
    comment by Outofthebot · 2022-06-28 · in Manage Your Dotfiles with Fig
  8. …the same time include documentation at the prompt. prompt_toolkit[2] does not do that afaik. [1]: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete [2]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit
    comment by blondin · 2022-05-18 · in Textual – A TUI framework for Python inspired by modern web development
  9. Sounds like they are actively working on adding support for Windows and Linux; https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete#does-fig-work-on-win...
    comment by NiekvdMaas · 2022-05-01 · in Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal
  10. …declarative equivalent [2]. [1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi... [2] https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete/blob/master/src/git....
    comment by mschrage · 2022-03-02 · in Creating a bash completion script (2018)
  11. …for specifying the inputs to a CLI tool and have a community repo with all supported tools: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete Disclosure: I'm one of the founders
    comment by mschrage · 2021-12-15 · in The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)
  12. If you want to play around with writing more 'interesting' completions, check out Fig ( https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete ). You can write completions declaratively and use TypeScript to generate dynamic suggestions. Disclosure: I'm…
    comment by mschrage · 2021-12-04 · in ZSH Completions How To
  13. …teams more productive in the terminal. - Mission: re-imagine the terminal. First, autocomplete ( https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete ), then fully-fledged App Store with apps like these ( https://fig.io/blog/post/launching-fig ) - Why:…
    comment by brendanfalk · 2021-12-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
  14. …teams more productive in the terminal. - Mission: re-imagine the terminal. First, autocomplete ( https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete ), then fully-fledged App Store with apps like these ( https://withfig.com/videos/old-sizzle-reel.mp4…
    comment by brendanfalk · 2021-11-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
  15. …shell setup. We are excited to integrate Fig with Warp. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100 [2] https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
    comment by brendanfalk · 2021-07-14 · in Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)
  16. …you wanted to help fix this (eg. writing the generator to list pods) that would be amazing! <3 [0] https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete/blob/2a0eea63d04f6b2...
    comment by mschrage · 2021-05-25 · in Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal
  17. …commander, click, etc) so they can be generated automatically! You can see some examples here: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
    comment by mschrage · 2021-05-05 · in CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)
  18. …Shell (bash/zsh) 2. Full-stack + Shell (bash/zsh) + Interested in owning our autocomplete product ( https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete ) Here's more information about Fig, our team, and what we're looking for:…
    comment by brendanfalk · 2021-03-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
  19. …what I’ve been working on with Fig. Intellisense exists in every modern IDE but not the shell. https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
    comment by mschrage · 2020-12-13 · in Become Shell Literate