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February 15, 2019

How to make tab autocomplete in fish terminal

Making tab autocomplete in Fish terminal is a great customisation I strongly recommend as it allows you to press tab to complete the command.

You need to rebind tab to forward-word

In fish terminal:

bind \t forward-word

Thanks for reading!

John Wiseman

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