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=== Automatic suggestions === {{main article|Autocomplete}} [[Image:Powershell Intellisense example for the Get-Process cmdlet.gif|right|thumb|upright=2|Command-line completion in [[PowerShell]].]]Shells featuring automatic suggestions display optional command-line completions as the user types. The [[PowerShell]] and [[Fish (Unix shell)|fish]] shells natively support this feature; pressing the {{keypress|tab}} key inserts the completion. Implementations of this feature can differ between shells; for example, PowerShell<ref>{{Cite web|last=sdwheeler|title=What's New in the PowerShell 5.0 ISE - PowerShell|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/windows-powershell/whats-new/what-s-new-in-the-powershell-50-ise|access-date=2021-07-25|website=docs.microsoft.com|language=en-us}}</ref> and [[Z shell|zsh]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=GitHub - marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete: π€ Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.|url=https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete|access-date=2021-07-25|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref> use an external module to provide completions, and fish derives its completions from the user's command history.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interactive use β fish-shell 3.3.1 documentation|url=https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#autosuggestions|access-date=2021-07-25|website=fishshell.com}}</ref>
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