inshellisense

inshellisense provides IDE style autocomplete for shells. It's a terminal native runtime for autocomplete which has support for 600+ command line tools. inshellisense supports Windows, Linux, & macOS.

Getting Started

Requirements

• Node.js 20.X, 18.X, 16.X (16.6.0 >=)

Installation

npm install -g @microsoft/inshellisense

Quickstart

After completing the installation, run is doctor to verify your installation was successful. You can run is to start the autocomplete session for your desired shell. Additionally, inshellisense is also aliased under inshellisense after installation.

Shell Plugin

If you'd like to automatically start inshellisense when you open your shell, run the respective command for your shell. After running the command, inshellisense will automatically open when you start any new shell session:

# bash
is init bash >> ~/.bashrc

# zsh
is init zsh >> ~/.zshrc

# fish
is init fish >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

# pwsh
is init pwsh | Add-Content $profile

# powershell
is init powershell | Add-Content $profile

# xonsh
is init xonsh >> ~/.xonshrc

# nushell
is init nu | save $nu.env-path --append

Note

When updating your shell configuration in the future, make sure the inshellisense plugin is the last command in the file. Including commands after it may break the configuration (ex. initializing your shell plugin manager after the inshellisense plugin)

Usage

Action	Command	Description
Start	is	Start inshellisense session on the current shell
Stop	exit	Stop inshellisense session on the current shell
Check If Inside Inshellisense Session	is -c	Check if shell inside inshellisense session

Keybindings

All other keys are passed through to the shell. The keybindings below are only captured when the inshellisense suggestions are visible, otherwise they are passed through to the shell as well. These can be customized in the config.

Action	Keybinding
Accept Current Suggestion	tab
View Next Suggestion	↓
View Previous Suggestion	↑
Dismiss Suggestions	esc

Integrations

inshellisense supports the following shells:

• bash
• zsh
• fish
• pwsh
• powershell (Windows Powershell)
• cmd (experimental)
• xonsh
• nushell

Configuration

All configuration is done through a toml file. You can create this file at ~/.inshellisenserc or, for XDG compliance, at ~/.config/inshellisense/rc.toml. The JSON schema for the configuration file can be found here.

Keybindings

You can customize the keybindings for inshellisense by adding a bindings section to your config file. The following is the default configuration for the keybindings:

[bindings.acceptSuggestion]
key = "tab"
# shift and tab are optional and default to false
shift = false
ctrl = false

[bindings.nextSuggestion]
key = "down"

[bindings.previousSuggestion]
key = "up"

[bindings.dismissSuggestions]
key = "escape"

Key names are matched against the Node.js keypress events.

Contributing

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