ZSH autocompletion or autosuggestion? And what's syntax highlighting?

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  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • Zsh has also a tab-completion. And you could extend it via frameworks like ohmyz.sh or different. They have often multiple plugins for completing your commands or similar

  • fast-syntax-highlighting

    Feature-rich syntax highlighting for ZSH (by zdharma-continuum)

  • ZSH Fast Syntax Highlighting

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • pureish

    Minimal zsh configuration with pure, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting and a few utilities.

  • I have a repo to add Pure + autosuggestions and syntax highlighting to Zsh. Check it out if you'd like.

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • You can also try fish, which does all of that out of the box.

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