Fish-like Autosuggestion in Powershell

For a year, working on Windows laptops has been nonoptional for me. I've been desperately trying to make my environment as close as it is on Mac OS, with the added challenge to do it without the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). So this relies heavily on Powershell.

One thing I like from the fish shell (and was reproduced in zsh by the zsh-autosuggestion plugin) is the autosuggestion feature.

It's that thing where when you start typing something and there is something that starts with the same letters in your history, it'll write it after the cursor in grayed colors. And it's awesome.

For Powershell, it´s called predictive IntelliSense in PSReadLine.

Prerequisites

• Powershell 5.1 or higher

Installation

1. First, install ´PSReadLine´ version 2.1.0
   

   Install-Module PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.1.0
   

2. Then, initialize it with the command below
   

   Import-Module PSReadLine
   Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History
   

And there it is!

(Optional) Initialize it in your profile

1. Check if you already have a profile
   

   Test-path $profile
   

2. If false, create one
   

   New-item –type file –force $profile
   

3. If yes, edit it
   

   notepad $profile
   

4. Run this command and close your terminal
   

   Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
   

5. Update your profile file like in step 3, and add those lines to it
   

   Import-Module PSReadLine
   Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History
   

And that's it!

Comments

[Francisco Clavero]

Thanks a lot!

If you get the following error:

Set-PSReadLineOption : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'PredictionSource'

installing a prerelease may solve the issue:

Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -AllowPrerelease -Scope CurrentUser -Force -SkipPublisherCheck

[Parshuram Patil]

I am able to get the autosuggestions but still unable to get ZSH like view like green >, colors, etc. Am I missing something?

[CastelloDev]

The gif seems to be using starship terminal:
starship.rs/

[Cisnux]

Thanks bro, this useful for me

[atom]

thanks, very useful.

[Wanga Evans]

Thanks alot! I Love it

[ffrmns]

Thanks, this will help learning powershell in ease

[Dmitry Petukhov]

Thank you, Thomas
Now it looks more like fish :)