Auto-completion for text values appearing in the buffer

[pcgeek86]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When I am typing a command, sometimes I usetext values that come from previous commands I've executed.

Describe the solution you'd like

When I am typing a command at the shell prompt (PowerShell), I'd like to use a keyboard shortcut to auto-complete text that appears in the buffer. iTerm2 on MacOS already does this really well, but I'm using Wezterm on Windows 11, installed using the Scoop package manager.

For example, I'd like to auto-complete the Kubernetes "context" names from this screenshot:

[wez]

Take a look at Quick Select Mode; press CTRL-SHIFT-SPACE to activate it to highlight text from the terminal buffer. You can configure the patterns used by the default quick select, or set up key assignments to trigger specific matches using QuickSelectArgs

[pcgeek86]

Looks potentially useful. I'll have to figure out how to have it detect words and other elements. The default behavior is pretty cool though.

[yar999]

Try clink's AutoSuggest function, which works just as well as ZSH's autoSuggest @pcgeek86

[wez]

I'll have to figure out how to have it detect words and other elements.

This will add a regex that matches word characters and - that seems like it would match the output in your screenshot:

return {
  quick_select_patterns = {
    "[\\w-]+"
  }
}

[XobSod]

That is great idea I would also like to see in WezTerm ;) I found something like this for tmux here https://tmux.reconquest.io/ but it would be nice to have it natively in the terminal itself <3

[DoKoB0512]

Something like Warp terminal which gives a menu for reverse search with regex and case-insensitivity would be awesome to have in WezTerm

[wez]

@DoKoB0512 how about search mode?

You can use CTRL-SHIFT-F to activate it in the default key assignments, or use the Command Palette (pictured above) with CTRL-SHIFT-P and type in "search".

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/scrollback.html#searching-the-scrollback

[DoKoB0512]

@DoKoB0512 how about search mode?

You can use CTRL-SHIFT-F to activate it in the default key assignments, or use the Command Palette (pictured above) with CTRL-SHIFT-P and type in "search".

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/scrollback.html#searching-the-scrollback

This is great. But warp's Ctrl+R also reverse-search the commands like cd and ssh that we've ran previously. I want to know if something like that is possible with the Command Palette or something else.

[aoyama-val]

+1 for the iTerm style completion. It is similar to our familiar tab completion and easier than to recognize prefix.