Setting up PowerShell completion

This guide walks through setting up conda tab completion in PowerShell.

Prerequisites

• conda 25.1 or later

• PowerShell 5.1 or later (PowerShell 7+ recommended)

Install conda-completion

conda install -c conda-forge conda-completion

Activate completion

Option A: automatic install

conda completion install

This detects PowerShell automatically and adds a delimited block to your profile. Preview with:

conda completion install --dry-run

Option B: manual setup

Add this line to your PowerShell profile ($PROFILE):

conda completion init powershell | Invoke-Expression

Verify

Open a new PowerShell session and try:

PS> conda install -<TAB>
--channel     --dry-run     --name        --prefix      ...

Tip

PowerShell renders completions using CompletionResult objects, which support descriptions and different completion types (parameter values, commands, etc.).

Profile locations

conda-completion checks these paths for your PowerShell profile:

Platform	Path
Windows	~/Documents/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
Windows (5.1)	~/Documents/WindowsPowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
macOS/Linux	~/.config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Uninstall

conda completion uninstall