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Add a Bash-like autocomplete to your PowerShell

Felix Haus on December 27, 2019

I mostly use Ubuntu or MacOS for development, but recently I switched sides because I needed the power from my Windows gaming machine to start play...
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Kudos Beluga •

Over a year later and this works great!
My terminal experience just got even more convenient :)
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Felix Haus •

Oh yeah, time flies 😁
Great to hear that it still works!

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Robson Sobral •

Thank you! Thank you so much! Now I need to find a way to auto complete SSH config hosts. Thank you!

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Robson Sobral •

I found it!

github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/...

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Robson Sobral •

Or, even simpler:

gist.github.com/backerman/2c91d31d...

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Pranjal Verma • • Edited

Can Anyone Help me out !!!!!
*In PoweShell
I only want a snippet that do

  1. when i enter "run"
  2. and hit tab key,
  3. It simply autocomplete the expression to "g++ -g **.cpp -o main.exe && .\main.exe"
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Max • • Edited 
function run { 
   'g++ -g **.cpp -o main.exe && .\main.exe' | Invoke-Expression 
}
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Mikhail •

I really missed this feature. Thank you.

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Таисия Рыбакahyh •

I can't even begin how much I'm happy about this. Love you, really lots of love haha <3.

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Felix Haus •

Haha, thanks for your kind words! 💓

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Benjamin La Madrid • • Edited

Fast-forward to December 7th, 2022
The steps described in this guide still work like a charm. This autocompletion feature totally beats the default one.

Thank you so much!

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Povilas Brilius •

Strange, it doesn't offer oh-my-zsh like style completion.

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Matthias Baldi •

thanks for that 👌
implemented this together with a theme and the new windows terminal
gist.github.com/matthiasbaldi/6f4f...