Power Search and Autocomplete

Why PCHAA?

• FOSS
• Not Electron based
• Works with your existing terminal & shell
• Customize text search algorithms as per your need

Demo

(old gif, please use pchaa instead of python main.py)

Project Goals

The goal of the project is to create a beautiful experience for Terminals users. All of the alternative versions for such projects were ElectronJS based, I needed something minimal with easy to update custom search algorithms

Install

# Install xdotool, for arch linux its
sudo pacman -S xdotool

pip install python-libxdo prompt_toolkit 
pip install pchaa

Run

pchaa

Next steps:

Clean and filter the bash history and integrate Naive Bayes algorithm for next command prediction

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Similar projects

• https://fig.io/
• https://www.warp.dev/
• https://www.hyper.is
• https://github.com/mflorence99/el-term

FAQs

My auto complete window is empty

pchaa uses ~/.bash_history to get previously used bash history. Make sure your terminal has some history to be displayed.

Does pchaa work in tty?

pchaa uses xclip which needs X running. pchaa won't work in wayland/ tty as of now.

Wayland and MacOS fix

• wtype, wl-clipboard, wclip, ydotool
• pbcopy and pbpaste, If anyone wan'ts this to port to MacOs feel free to file an issue, I need a user to test.