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Works, is really nice, thank you. May I (auto-)suggest: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Have fun ;-)

comment by sandreas · 2025-09-24 · in Zoxide: A Better CD Command

…to share history across machines, and as a benefit the history search is a lot more powerful. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://starship.rs https://atuin.sh

comment by doubled112 · 2025-07-20 · in Speeding up my ZSH shell

…creation is automatic and you don't have to predict what you will need to access frequently. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions?tab=readme-...

comment by James_K · 2025-01-27 · in Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster

I'm using the zsh-autosuggestion plugin (so not a feature of the terminal but of the shell): https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by flohofwoe · 2024-05-21 · in iTerm2 3.5.0

…I hadn't seen anywhere else at the time, but this is now also available in zsh via this plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by flohofwoe · 2024-01-01 · in Fish shell 3.7.0 released, the last release branch before the full Rust rewrite

…3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... 4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions 5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions 6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab 7) any good shell prompt

comment by ireallywantthat · 2023-08-26 · in Fish – A friendly interactive shell

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions is nice but personally I prefer: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

comment by henry_viii · 2022-11-24 · in The Art of Command Line

Same for me, later I switched back to zsh after I discovered this plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Best of both world really.

comment by flohofwoe · 2022-07-23 · in Moving to zsh (2019)

…because of it's excellent auto-completion that displays as you type. Said functionality for zsh: * https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by throw0101a · 2022-05-16 · in Zsh 5.9

…I recommend Oh My Zsh with the zsh-autosuggestions [1] and zsh-syntax-highlighting [2] plugins. [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting And my custom theme ;)…

comment by yboris · 2022-05-16 · in Zsh 5.9

…/github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... for very good and fast syntax highlighting - https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions for auto-suggestions I don't use a plugin manager, instead I put together a ~20 line…

comment by nickjj · 2022-04-10 · in Zim – The Zsh configuration framework

…based on what you type, but there’s no reason it couldn’t provide a suggestion “immediately”. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by eddyg · 2022-03-19 · in Ask HN: Hacker Friendly Terminal (Linux/macOS)

My only plugins are zsh-autosuggestion ( https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ) zsh-syntax-highlighting ( https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ) and zsh fzf-tab ( https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab ) its been…

comment by animal_spirits · 2021-11-25 · in The fish shell is amazing

…for me.) [0] https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by lordgrenville · 2021-10-20 · in s/bash/zsh/g

…there was a freenode and #zsh it was widely hated as only IRC can hate something. You can source https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master... https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/ma... without omz…

comment by chx · 2021-10-20 · in s/bash/zsh/g

…of users in a blink of an eye. [1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting [2]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by soraminazuki · 2021-10-20 · in s/bash/zsh/g

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by _h9mb · 2021-05-25 · in Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

…Would be great if you kept this demographic in mind. Congrats on the launch, and all the best! [1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by shadeslayer_ · 2021-05-25 · in Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

Same here. If you miss fish's smart auto-completion I can recommend this zsh plugin though: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by flohofwoe · 2021-03-01 · in Fish Shell 3.2

+1 for the `zsh-autosuggestions`: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Bonus: `zsh-syntax-highlighting` is excellent: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

comment by yboris · 2021-02-18 · in Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

I use zsh with this plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Best of both worlds, fish-like autocomplete combined with bash-compatibility :)

comment by flohofwoe · 2021-02-17 · in Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation

I switched from fish to zsh once I found this plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Now zsh feels just like fish, but with bash-compatible syntax (which was the main day-to-day problem I had with fish, otherwise it's…

comment by flohofwoe · 2021-01-27 · in Why Create a New Unix Shell?

…not benefit from these suggestions. [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting [2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by gabagool · 2020-12-21 · in Bash 5.1

If anyone here is a zsh user and interested to use the same feature: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions It really was a game changer for me as well.

comment by snypox · 2020-09-30 · in New Features in the Fish Shell

…https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ) [zsh-autosuggestions]( https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ) Poster mentioned "modern alternatives exist" with good colorization options. Some of my favorite colorized

comment by IggleSniggle · 2020-07-26 · in Colorize Your CLI

My productivity stack: Zsh (with all the autocomplete plugins) Oh-my-zsh zsh-autosuggestions: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Tmux Histdb: https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb Zoxide (replace cd):…

comment by kortex · 2020-04-25 · in Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

…that you already typed. Similar to Ctrl-R with fzf, but still similar enough that I use both. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions also looks through your history for commands with the same start, but it will automatically…

comment by fdw · 2020-04-25 · in Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

I use zsh and found https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions to be very comparable with fish autocomplete, while keeping zsh niceties.

comment by zerd · 2020-04-17 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

…feel "lack of customization in Fish" : what can you customize in Zsh that you cannot in Fish? [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/29 , https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/22 ,…

comment by ronjouch · 2019-10-31 · in A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)

…emulate some of it in zsh, but it's still not as good as what fish comes with out of the box. [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

comment by dickeytk · 2019-10-26 · in Fish: A command line shell for the 90s

…keys. There's a plugin for zsh which implements the same behaviour (this is what I'm using now): https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by flohofwoe · 2019-10-10 · in A Useful Thing in Bash

…installing the package from your distribution (Debian, Arch) and source it, or just run: git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions in zsh and do exec zsh.

comment by jraph · 2019-02-15 · in Problem solving with Unix commands

…some additional things that you can't do in zsh without plugins, such as autosuggestions[0]. [0]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by hjek · 2018-12-28 · in Fish shell 3.0

…settings[1] with the autosuggestions[2] plugin. 1 - https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh 2 - https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by AsyncAwait · 2018-07-28 · in iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

…-fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)" git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions Then edit your ~/.zshrc plugins # Plugins…

comment by Exuma · 2018-07-28 · in iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

You can do this in Zsh: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by nikivi · 2018-07-28 · in iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

…cannot. Does anybody have a suggestion for me, or a better mapping? [autocompletion plugin] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by fdw · 2018-04-22 · in A look at terminal emulators, part 1

* zsh-autosuggestions: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions * zsh-syntax-highlighting: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting * My zshrc, for what it's worth: https://github.com/burke/dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc#L1…

comment by burke · 2017-12-13 · in Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

…for zsh: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by nlo · 2017-09-26 · in Git git git git git

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Shouldn't be too hard to modify it to display completion data instead of entries from your history.

comment by teamhappy · 2017-09-21 · in Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

I see. Apparently those are in zsh-users, not oh-my-zsh. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

comment by myhf · 2017-07-05 · in Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs

…for commands is super helpful too. ``` cat $HOME/.bash_history | grep -E 'command|argument' ``` https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions I just finished a guid on my site about my terminal setup. I hope to read yours once you've…

comment by rogeruiz · 2017-06-26 · in Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?

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Zsh-autosuggestions

story by ivank · 2017-04-14 · 0 comments

There is also https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions which is similar but more complete (not only works with cd) Demo here: https://asciinema.org/a/37390

comment by diggan · 2017-03-27 · in Show HN: Fish like interactive tab completion for cd in zsh

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ZSH Autosuggestions – pre-emptive autocomplete for your shell

story by aeontech · 2017-02-22 · 0 comments

…ithub.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by bigbugbag · 2017-01-15 · in Mastering Bash and Terminal

…to the full last systemctl command I used https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

comment by bigbugbag · 2016-05-06 · in Count me as a systemd convert

…zsh-syntax-highlighting[3]. [1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search [2]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [3]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

comment by bigbugbag · 2016-05-06 · in Count me as a systemd convert

You mean something like https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ?

comment by Spiritus · 2016-03-24 · in D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project

…who like the autosuggestion feature of Fish but can't leave oh-my-zsh, there's a plugin for that: https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions

comment by ahmetmsft · 2015-05-18 · in Fish shell