Blazing fast tab completion for powershell and pwsh.
Features:
* Fast startup and execution using nushell/nu-engine
* Extendable using .nu files, with built in support for commmon tasks like git and npm run
By default, completions.nu is used. An alternative .nu file can be specified in the TABCOMPLETE_FILE environment variable.
There are binaries available in releases or with one of these commands:
| Repository | Instructions |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| [crates.io] | cargo install posh-tabcomplete --locked|
Add this line to your profile, you can edit this by typing code $PROFILE in powershell:
pwsh
Invoke-Expression (&tabcomplete init | Out-String)
The completions packaged with the binary in completions.nu are: * git completions. These are also combined with git auto generated completions * npm completions * cargo completions
Benchmark | Results
----------|-----------
benchmark/init - startup time | tabcomplete: 102ms, posh-git: 432ms (4.24x faster)
benchmark/complete - tab completion (100 branches) | tabcomplete: 71ms, posh-git: 172ms (2.42x faster)
Functions are supported. For example, the completion of gco in the demo is:
pwsh
function gco() { git checkout $args }
There is no support for alias completions at this time.