new Fish-style instant autosuggestions

[sunaku]

The fish shell has developed a new, more powerful "autosuggestions" history search:

Can this be ported to ZSH? If so, let's start a new zsh-history-autosuggest script.

/cc @guidovansteen @sorin-ionescu @nicoulaj

[nicoulaj]

Do you know about auto-fu.zsh ? It seems to be close to this, but uses completion system instead of history.

[guidovansteen]

@sunaku: I do not think this would be of much interest to me. I am not a fan of suggestions I have not asked for. When I suspect the long command is somewhere in my history file I just press repeatedly until the relevant command appears.

Good luck with the project though!

@nicoulaj: I am afraid the completion system works quite different from our history search.

[sunaku]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

[sorin-ionescu]

I like the new Fish auto suggestions.

[joe9]

Check out predict-on zsh plugin.

[guidovansteen]

Thanks for this notification!

Guido van Steen

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Check out predict-on zsh plugin.

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[sunaku]

@joe9 thanks, that's pretty cool. ✨ Now, if only I could configure predict-on to: 🐣

• perform a substring search (match anywhere, not just at beginning of command line)
• be toggleable by pressing Ctrl-Z (maybe it could set a $ZSH_PREDICT_ON flag) found an answer
• show a list of all matching commands (like a normal ZSH completion menu)

[sorin-ionescu]

@nicoulaj, auto-fu conflicts with zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-history-substring-search.

[sorin-ionescu]

Neither zsh-syntax-highlighting nor zsh-history-substring-search play well with predict-on. The former does not highlight and the latter searches for the entire line — both the typed portion and the prediction. Fish only searches for the typed portion of the line.

Use the following to enable predict-on.

autoload -U predict-on
zle -N predict-on
zle -N predict-off
bindkey '^X^Z' predict-on
bindkey '^X^A' predict-off
zstyle ':predict' verbose 'yes'

The key bindings are arbitrary. Better ones ought to be found.

[sunaku]

@tarruda has ported Fish's autosuggestions to ZSH ✨ in https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions

[tarruda]

While the basic autosuggestion infrastructure is in place, the widget is very alpha. It would be great if a zle expert could send some patches

[tarruda]

zsh-autosuggestions should be more stable now. I also added some tweaks to make it play nicely with zsh-syntax-highlighting

[nicoulaj]

@tarruda your project is pretty cool, please get in touch if you want to host it in the zsh-users organization

[tarruda]

@nicoulaj sounds good, what do I have to do?

[nicoulaj]

@tarruda sorry for the delay, I forgot about this. I gave you the rights on the organization, so you can now transfer or create repositories in the organization. The only rules are:

• All projects must be related to zsh ;)
• All projects must be general purpose (no dotfiles or personal stuff like that)
• If you go the organization settings page, then "teams" you can see we use teams for dealing with access rights

Welcome!

[sorin-ionescu]

@nicoulaj, should Prezto be part of @zsh-users or should I keep it under my name? Do you consider it general enough?

[nicoulaj]

Yes, of course it fits in this organization. I gave you the rights too.

Also, please note I'm not forcing anyone, I created this organization so that pet projects like this can be grouped together and have more visibility, People are free to come and go. So far it seems to work quite fine.

[sorin-ionescu]

Thank you. I'll keep it under my name for now, at least until I can tag it
v1.0.

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Yes, of course it fits in this organization. I gave you the rights too.

Also, please note I'm not forcing anyone, I created this organization so
that pet projects like this can be grouped together and have more
visibility, People are free to come and go. So far it seems to work quite
fine.

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