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
* Supports all platforms. Tested on windows, WSL, mac and linux
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 (&posh-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
To run these, run ./benchmark/benchmark_all.ps1
Benchmark | Results
----------|-----------
benchmark/init - startup time | posh-tabcomplete: 102ms, posh-git: 432ms (4.24x faster)
benchmark/complete - tab completion (100 branches) | posh-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.