ohmyzsh VS zsh-autocomplete

ZSH and Oh My ZSH offer superpowers to your terminal thanks to its customization and wide variety of plugins.

I made that exact thought many years ago and came to the direct opposite conclusion. It was worth the cognitive overhead to make the change and I haven't looked back. Most of the time I'm just hitting aliases (from OMZ's git plugin) https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/git e.g.

    gsw  git switch

Zsh + Oh My Zsh Zsh + Oh My Zsh (OMZ) is a powerful and highly customizable shell setup. Zsh is an advanced shell that enhances the default bash experience with features like better autocompletion, improved scripting, and a more user-friendly syntax. Oh My Zsh is a framework that simplifies the management of Zsh configurations by providing a large collection of plugins, themes, and additional features. It helps improve your terminal productivity with tools like autocompletion for Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and more, while also offering eye-catching themes and an easy-to-manage configuration system. github

Installing oh-my-zsh-nvm plugin (when zsh is in use)

VS code's built-in terminal with Oh My ZSH! for my Zsh config. I'm a GUI person, so I don't care much about fancy terminals.

Oh My ZSH!

If you are using zsh with https://ohmyz.sh/, here is how you can easily get started with mise. (This for demonstration purpose only, if you are using another shell, go through the getting-started guide)

More info on this plugin can be found here.

Install zsh, switch bash to zsh as my shell and install oh-my-zsh

2. Oh my zsh https://ohmyz.sh

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git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions && git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting && git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting && git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autocomplete

git clone --depth 1 "https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git" $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autocomplete

Not up to the mark with https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete which works contextually.

I found it: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

If you're using zsh, you can use zsh-autocomplete plugin. Super easy to use. zsh-autocomplete github

save yourself time and use autosuggestions/autocompletions fish shell does it by default, zsh needs a plugin https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete (this one has a video showcasing it)

Yeah second this ^ its exactly what OP is asking for. Combine with auto-complete plugin and you can find any command youve typed before easily