Powershell better tab autocomplete

With Powershell ISE you can use CTRL + SPACE for auto completion.

Powershell ISE Completion

But when you work in a native Powershell window you don’t have this option. And many often you cycle with tab completion trough the powershell and because you press the TAB button too soon you have to remove characters and cycle again trough all the commands.

Unit now 😉

There is an easy fix you can implement so the Powershell have the same auto completion like bash.

  • Type notepad $profile for Windows or gedit $profile for Linux
  • Add the line Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete
Add line in $profile
  • Save the file and restart Powershell
  • And now you have a much better working tab completion
Linux Example
Windows Example

Happy coding 🙂

Author: Thomas Faddegon

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