How to add autocomplete to Powershell in 30 seconds ⚡

#tutorial #productivity

One of my friends informed me about this really cool feature that allows you to add autocomplete to Windows powershell in 2 easy steps:

Here’s a demo of what we’ll be doing today (Thanks to nexxel for the blog idea)

How? By using PSReadLine

Step one

Install PSreadline



Install-Module PSReadLine

Step two

Open your PowerShell PROFILE in your preferred editor (get the file by using $PROFILE )

paste this code snippet:



Import-Module PSReadLine

# Shows navigable menu of all options when hitting Tab
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete

# Autocompleteion for Arrow keys
Set-PSReadLineOption -HistorySearchCursorMovesToEnd
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key UpArrow -Function HistorySearchBackward
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key DownArrow -Function HistorySearchForward

Set-PSReadLineOption -ShowToolTips
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History

And that’s it!!

Top comments (6)

Tomas Buzeta • Jan 26 '23

This is great! Thanks for sharing.. but i have a question.. when you are typing you get predictions based on what you wrote sometime.. And you can autocomplete it with right arrow key, right? Do you know how to change that keybind?