Gaurav

Autocompleting ssh, rake, cap command parameters using PowerShell

I have mentioned in my previous posts that PowerShell has excellent and customizabme autocompletion support.
And some awesome plugins like powertab exist to take this functionality to another level.
Here is one easy way you can customize autocompletion easily by writing a couple of lines of code.

Open your PowerShell profile file (for help see here) and create a function with name "global:TabExpansion" in it.
This function basically overrides default autocompletion and sends your values to the prompt. For example for it to read your ssh files and display hosts in it the function would look something like this:

# customized tab expansion

function global:TabExpansion {

  param($line, $lastWord)

  if ($line -match 'ssh'){

    return cat C:\Users\Gaurav\.ssh\config | Select-String '^Host ' | % { if($_.Line -match "^Host ($lastword\S*)" ){ $matches[1] }}

  }

}

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