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zsh-autosuggestions

Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

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52Mentions
2Explicit recommenders
36.2KGitHub stars
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Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

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You're talking about autosuggestion, one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE features. I tell everyone about this: If you're nervous about running shell commands here they're the same as…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year52 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-06-30 08:35:06 UTC to 2025-09-24 18:07:13 UTC.

02468102014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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Once you have everything figured out, you just keep using the config you have. It might be worth the investment. I stopped using oh-my-zsh when I realized it was what was causing multi-second delays on Raspberry Pis. I think auto suggestions and syntax highlighting plugins can be installed separately from oh-my-zsh. I use starship for a better prompt, and it works on more shells than just Zsh. I also have Atuin installed to share history across machines, and as a benefit the history search is a lot more powerful. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://starship.rs https://atuin.sh
In Speeding up my ZSH shell
I have a utility called ZSH Autosuggestions, and it's probably one of the most useful things on my computer. It shows you a sort of preview of the most recent command you typed that matches the prefix of the current command you are typing. It's basically an automatic tool that bookmarks commands based on usage. I think the best bookmark systems are ones which simply track your entire history and suggest relevant pages based on it. That way the process of bookmark creation is automatic and you don't have to predict what you will need to access frequently. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions?tab=readme-...
In Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster
Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell. BUT... After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where as good as configured zsh. 1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager) 2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... 3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... 4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions 5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions 6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab 7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration
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is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus. I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.
In Fish – A friendly interactive shell
Is anyone else mostly rolling with the zsh (not oh-my-zsh) defaults? After so many years of using Bash I switched to zsh almost a year ago. I use the vanilla zsh set up with 2 plugins: - https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... for very good and fast syntax highlighting - https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions for auto-suggestions I don't use a plugin manager, instead I put together a ~20 line shell script[0] which handles either cloning or pulling plugins, then you can load them in your zshrc[1]. I haven't found the need for anything else and my whole dev environment is based on using tmux, terminal Vim, etc.. Basically I spend a lot of time there in my day to day. I started with the idea of "less is more" and planned to add more things over time but the time to add new things hasn't come yet. [0] https:/
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In Zim – The Zsh configuration framework
I switched to fish for about six months, and recently went back to zsh when I realised that the three things I really liked about it (abbreviations, syntax highlighting and autosuggestions) were all doable in zsh with extensions [0]. (It feels pretty slow, even slower than say OMZ, but that's not such a big deal for me.) [0] https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
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