I'm moving away from Windows (yay!) and need to bring a few features with me. Microsoft added this auto complete feature to PowerShell recently and I need something similar:

I found this package which is helpful, but it requires you to hit tab before you get a list of suggested commands: https://wiki.debian.org/Add%20Bash%20Completion

Do I need a different shell entirely? I'm using bash on Debian now.

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[–] 17 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Use fish as your command line shell, it's doing exactly that and way more.

It's so intuitive and useful that I forgot that it was not part of the standard shell.

https://fishshell.com/assets/img/screenshots/autosuggestion.webp

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