posh-tabcomplete

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.

Installation

Step 1. Install binary

There are binaries available in releases or with one of these commands:

Step 2. Setup powershell

Add this line to your profile, you can edit this by typing code $PROFILE in powershell:

Invoke-Expression (&tabcomplete init | Out-String)

Built in completions

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

Benchmarks

Aliases / Function support

Functions are supported. For example, the completion of gco in the demo is:

function gco() { git checkout $args }

There is no support for alias completions at this time.