Visual Autocomplete

[ozsay]

Have a GUI window to display suggestions for completing commands..
i.e:
when a user types git c[tab], it will show a window with a list of git subcommands that start with c.
when a user types git checkout [tab], it will show a window with branches to checkout.

Prior art:

1. fig.io (now part of amazon Q)
2. Warp

[mwmcode]

checkout https://carapace.sh/

[Integralist]

I use fzf-tab

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

Works great.

Here's my shell config for auto-complete:

https://github.com/integralist/dotfiles/blob/main/.config%2Fzsh%2Fautocomplete.zsh

[mogeko]

I have tried products like carapace, but none of them are as natural as Fig (Amazon Q). However, Amazon Q is too intrusive; at the same time, it is also a commercial software. Ghostty needs to inherit and standardize this feature!

PS: Plugin developers for text editors like Vim will also benefit from this!

I have added a screenshot showing the appearance of Fig (Amazon Q) running in iTerm2.

They promised to provide support for Ghostty soon, but I still look forward to Ghostty having this feature built-in!

[yshavit]

iTerm2 has autocomplete based on anything in the current tab's buffer:

I find this extremely useful:

1. It's very fast: no need for generative AI or deep machine learning
2. It's extremely useful. Some examples:
   1. If I do something like foo --help, then the various switches are now autocomplete-able
   2. If I run foo some-long-arg, then bar som gives me an autocomplete to bar some-long-arg

Every time I've tried another terminal, this is the one feature that gets me coming back to iTerm2. The combination of fast + useful just can't be beat; this is something I use probably dozens of times a day.

Autocomplete

Any text that exists in a tab or its scrollback buffer can be autocompleted in that tab. To use autocomplete, type the beginning of a word and then press cmd-;. An autocomplete window opens showing the top 20 choices for words beginning what you have entered. The list can be filtered by typing a subsequence. The filter can be reset by pressing backspace. If you make a selection and press return, it will be entered for you. If you make a selection and press tab, your autocomplete will be extended with the selection.

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[mwmcode]

I don't think Ghostty will bake-in such a feature.

I recently came across carapace.sh/. I think it does a good job.
There is also https://atuin.sh/ to manage history. It also provides scoped-search (session/directory/global..) which can be handy sometimes.

For AI integration. Warp AI assistant has been getting better recently. Been using Warp + fishshell for almost a year and it's been a smooth experience.

👀 Waiting for Ghostty to implement cmd + f 🔍 so I can give it (& nushell ) a serious try.

[king-11]

using atuin in ghostty removes all the previous commands from the screen and have to scroll back

[yshavit]

fwiw, I don't think shells and carapace.sh can do everything iTerm2's autocomplete can. For example, with iTerm2, I can run a postgres command that outputs a uuid, and then autocomplete that uuid as I type a curl command. I think that requires the terminal to implement something -- a shell autocomplete library isn't going to do it.