Open ronawho opened 7 years ago
https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/pull/7929 added support for compiler autocompletion
I got the args for mason
with these commands, but creating the mason completion script will require some further thought due to handling subcommands (not accounted for here):
optional_abbr=`mason --help | grep -v '^[A-Za-z]' | grep '^.*--' | \
sed -e 's;^\(.*--[^ ]*\).*$;\1;' | grep ',' | sed -e 's;,.*$;;' | \
xargs echo`
optional=`mason --help | grep -v '^[A-Za-z]' | grep '^.*--' | \
sed -e 's;^\(.*--[^ ]*\).*$;\1;' | sed -e 's;-[A-Za-z],; ;' | \
xargs echo`
arg=`mason --help | grep -v '^[A-Za-z]' | grep -v '^.*--' | \
grep -v '<command>' | grep -v '\[options\]' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | \
cut -d" " -f1 | xargs echo`
Not having tab completion is such a drag
I have no idea what's involved to support bash_completion files, but http://askubuntu.com/questions/68175/how-to-create-script-with-auto-complete might be a good lead.
For our python scripts, we might be able to take advantage of argcomplete (https://argcomplete.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) or optcomplete(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/optcomplete). I think argcomplete/optcomplete do dynamic completion and require argcomplete/optcomplete to be installed. We can install them as part of the test-venv, but for user-facing tools we might want simple bash scripts to source
Here's a list of scripts/tools/executables that would benefit from tab completion:
Core:
User-facing tools:
Developer tools:
Testing scripts: