$env.config.completions = {
  algorithm: prefix
  sort: smart 
  case_sensitive: false
  quick: true
  partial: true
  use_ls_colors: true
  external: {
    enable: true
    max_results: 10
    completer: {|spans: list<string>|
      # if the current command is an alias, get it's expansion
      let expanded_alias = (scope aliases | where name == $spans.0 | get -i 0 | get -i expansion)

      # overwrite
      let spans = (if $expanded_alias != null  {
        # put the first word of the expanded alias first in the span
        $spans | skip 1 | prepend ($expanded_alias | split row " " | take 1)
      } else {
        $spans | skip 1 | prepend ($spans.0)
      })

      carapace $spans.0 nushell ...$spans
      | from json
    }
  }
 
}
$env.config.menus ++= [
  {
    marker:                 $"(ansi yellow)┣ "
    name:                   completion_menu
    only_buffer_difference: false
    style: {
      description_text: yellow
      selected_text:    red_reverse
      text:             yellow
    }
    type: {
      col_padding: 2
      col_width:   20
      columns:     1
      layout:      columnar
    }
  }
]