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POSIX compliance is a non-goal. Perhaps in the future, someone would be able to write a native plugin to support shell scripting (which would be against it’s main goal, but ….)</p><h2 id=windows-support class=heading>Windows Support? <a href=#windows-support class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>It compiles for Windows (CI ensures it does), but otherwise it is not directly supported. If you’d like to improve this situation, checkout <a href=https://github.com/Rosettea/Hilbish/discussions/165 target=_blank rel=noopener>the discussion</a> .</p><h2 id=why class=heading>Why? <a href=#why class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>Hilbish emerged from the desire of a Lua configured shell. It was the initial reason that it was created, but now it’s more: to be hyper extensible, simpler and more user friendly.</p><h2 id=does-it-have-autocompletion-or-tab-completion class=heading>Does it have “autocompletion” or “tab completion” <a href=#does-it-have-autocompletion-or-tab-completion class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>Of course! This is a modern shell. Hilbish provides a way for users to write tab completion for any command and/or the whole shell. 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