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zsh-autocomplete
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marlonrichert / zsh-autocomplete

zsh-autocomplete

🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

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🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

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HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-06-18 17:07:45 UTC to 2023-11-18 19:23:32 UTC.

02462020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Fig is macOS-only, proprietary, requires e-mail and has telemetry Fig relies on free labour to add completions and does not support open-source completion formats Fig is VC-funded and at some point will have to generate revenue for it’s investors - at your cost don’t use Fig! if you have zsh you can use zsh-autocomplete, which is no worse than Fig https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete edit: this comment was the most popular before HN moderators pinned it down, turns out Fig is YC-sponsored, so i’m not surprised
In Fig now supports JetBrains IDEs
I use configured zsh which has majority of features mentioned above. It is integrated with fzf and also has autcompletions(with help description), autosuggestions,hints, file completions and more. You can see my zsh dotfiles below. https://github.com/varbhat/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/zsh I could even have enabled real time type ahead completions with this plugin but i haven't (because i don't need this feature) : https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete i use my current configuration on foot terminal (which itself is blazing fast and boasts fastest vtt parser) in linux and kitty terminal (which is very feature rich, even has terminal graphics protocol so that you can even run glxgears(opengl cube demo: https://github.com/michaeljclark/glkitty) on it) on linux and macos. i am sure that other shells such has fish also have thes
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e features. So, what benefits do i get on switching to warp? currently,i don't see any except few marketing words which aren't enough for me to start using warp. I might be missing something but i am all ears.
In Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

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