Suggestions without new prompt

[beho]

Is it possible to configure fish not to clone current prompt when printing out suggestions ? I would like to be able to continuously edit a single line even if navigating into some deep directory while using suggestions and completions several times.

ZSH does this out of the box (I have no idea if it's configurable). It simply prints out suggestions, overwrites/updates them when requesting another suggestion and clears them after executing a command. This way suggestions never stay on screen after issuing a command. It is much cleaner than fish printing out a list of suggestions and new prompt with previous content every time there is an ambiguity.

[ridiculousfish]

If I understand this correctly, it's a request for fish to print out completions below the prompt instead of above it.

[beho]

Yep, I think it can be stated that way.

For illustration, if I write in my home L<tab>C<tab>o<tab>.

In ZSH I get:

In Fish:

In the end I don't care about suggestions so there is no reason for them to stay on the screen longer than necessary, they just clutter it.

Thanks for considering it !

[gustafj]

+1
This is something i also miss coming from zsh.

[terlar]

I guess this issue is related: #291

[noahfrederick]

For what it's worth, I am strongly in favor of the proposed behavior. It addresses two pain points for me:

1. I don't want a bunch of suggestions sticking around in my scrollback, and perhaps more importantly, a bunch of lines containing incomplete commands, which is confusing.
2. I find the context switch (moving to a new prompt) in the current implementation to be disorienting visually.

[AndreTheHunter]

+1
I'd love to see this feature too

[ridiculousfish]

fish master does this now

[KamilaBorowska]

If it does, then why not close this issue? (hint: it does in master version)