A Guide to the Zsh Auto-Completion With Examples

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/zsh

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  • compleat

    Generate command-line completions using a simple DSL.

  • True. It seems it includes compleat: https://github.com/mbrubeck/compleat

  • zsh-autocomplete

    🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

  • I believe this is the conventional use of this term. Hence https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete, which offers completions without pressing anything (automatically); or https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions, which offers suggestions without pressing anything (ditto).

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  • zsh-autosuggestions

    Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

  • I believe this is the conventional use of this term. Hence https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete, which offers completions without pressing anything (automatically); or https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions, which offers suggestions without pressing anything (ditto).

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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