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Project Proposal: More Interactive CLIs #708

Open areebbeigh opened 5 years ago

areebbeigh commented 5 years ago

Currently, all the coala CLI interactions occur through numeric inputs which is very slow and cumbersome in most cases. This can be improved greatly by building more interactive CLIs using tools like PyInquirer. We have a lot of areas where the CLI can be improved.

For example we can use:

Apart from replacing number based inputs, we can:

This could be a GSoC size project once all the potential areas of implementation are identified.

Note: If you're not familiar with using such CLIs, checkout:

chay2199 commented 5 years ago

This project is interesting and can be really helpful. @areebbeigh just an idea, $ 'coala --show-bears --filter-by language' command shows a list of bears that the user can use. While most bear names are self explanatory but for the others we can use something like Expand to provide their documentation. In this process we'll have to improve the documentation of some bears too.