What's new in github-code-search v1.7.0

Full release notes: https://github.com/fulll/github-code-search/releases/tag/v1.7.0

Highlights

Shell completions — bash, zsh, fish

Tab-completion is now available for all three major shells. A new completions subcommand prints the appropriate script to stdout:

# bash
github-code-search completions --shell bash >> ~/.bashrc

# zsh  (place the script in a $fpath directory)
github-code-search completions --shell zsh > ~/.zfunc/_github-code-search

# fish
github-code-search completions --shell fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/github-code-search.fish

When --shell is omitted, the shell is auto-detected from $SHELL.

The completion scripts cover:

• All subcommands (query, upgrade, completions)
• All flags (--org, --format, --output-type, --exclude-repositories, --exclude-extracts, --group-by-team-prefix, --no-interactive, --include-archived, --no-cache, --debug)
• Enumerated flag values where applicable (--format markdown|json, --output-type repo-and-matches|repo-only)

Auto-refresh on upgrade

If you have installed completions, they are refreshed automatically every time you run github-code-search upgrade. No manual action needed — the completion file is overwritten in-place.

Install script

The install.sh script now calls install_completions() at the end of an installation, writing the completion file for the detected shell:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fulll/github-code-search/main/install.sh | bash

Extended syntax highlighting

Five new language profiles have been added to the TUI code viewer:

Language	Keywords → magenta	Special tokens → cyan
PHP	function, class, echo, foreach…	$variables, PascalCase types — #[Attributes] correctly NOT dimmed (PHP 8+)
C / C++	int, void, struct, class, nullptr…	#include/#define directives
Swift	var, let, func, guard, protocol…	PascalCase types
Terraform/HCL	resource, variable, output, module…	Booleans / null
Dockerfile	FROM, RUN, CMD, COPY, EXPOSE…	$ENV_VAR / ${VAR} references

Language detection is extension-based first (Dockerfile.ts is correctly identified as TypeScript, not Dockerfile). Filename-based Dockerfile detection is the fallback for files without a known extension.

12 new file extensions are now recognised: .php, .phtml, .c, .h, .cpp, .cc, .cxx, .hpp, .hxx, .swift, .tf, .hcl.

---

Upgrade

github-code-search upgrade

Or grab the latest binary directly from the GitHub Releases page.