posh-tabcomplete 0.1.0

Blazing fast tab completion for powershell.
Documentation

posh-tabcomplete

Blazing fast tab completion for powershell.

Features:

  • Fast startup and execution using 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.

Installation

Step 1. Install

Repository Instructions
crates.io cargo install posh-tabcomplete --locked

Step 2. Setup powershell

Invoke-Expression (&tabcomplete init | Get-Content)

Built in completions

Benchmarks

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)

Aliases / Function support

Functions are supported. For example, this would add completion for gco , as if it was git checkout :

function gco() { git checkout $args }

There is no support for alias completions at this time.