Fish completion for VS Code

Native fish shell completion in VS Code intellisense

Editing large scripts or functions in fish is less ergonomic compared to a proper Text Editor™. However, editors (such as VS Code) either do not provide command completions or do not integrate with the built-in completions of fish.

This extension queries fish shell completions directly. The extension provides The text in the editor to commandline and then complete -C provides it with a list of completions and descriptions.

Note: There is an experimental variable and function completion in v0.2. You can enable it in settings at fish-completion.assistant.v1.enabled.

Requirements

• script executable in $PATH (to fake a TTY),
• /dev/null (to dispose of the typescript of script),
• Working fish shell installation.

Installing from source

This project requires Node.js version 16 minimum. Ensure that you have installed the correct version of Node.js by running node --version.

The following snippet will download, install, and build the source from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/esdmr/fish-completion.git
cd fish-completion
corepack pnpm install
corepack pnpm run build

After building, you can either use VS Code to launch it or run corepack pnpm run package to generate a vsix file.

Porting to other editors

See Porting to other editors.