Install zsh-autocomplete on WSL2

What is zsh-autocomplete?

Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

marlonrichert / zsh-autocomplete

🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

Autocomplete for Zsh

This plugin for Zsh adds real-time type-ahead autocompletion to your command line, similar to what you find desktop apps. While you type on the command line, available completions are listed automatically; no need to press any keyboard shortcuts. Press Tab to insert the top completion or ↓ to select a different one.

Additional features:

Out-of-the-box configuration of Zsh's completion system
Multi-line history search
Completion of recent directories
Useful keyboard shortcuts
Easy to configure

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Requirements

Recommended:

Tested to work with Zsh 5.8 and newer.

Minimum:

Should theoretically work with Zsh 5.4, but I'm unable to test that.

Installation & setup

First, install Autocomplete itself. Here are some way to do so:

To use only releases (instead of the main branch), install zsh-autocomplete with a package manager. As of this writing, this package is available through Homebrew, Nix, pacman, Plumage…

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git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Add the following to .zshrc

plugins=( 
    git
    zsh-autosuggestions
)