Fish Shell Completions

[er2]

Toolbox would be much more enjoyable to use with shell auto-completions.

It's much easier to hit tab with

toolbox create --distro ␉

and get available distros than to get an error and have to pull up docs.

I picked ubuntu since debian wasn't available. Then I needed a release. It would have been friendlier to suggest the latest LTS and ask me to confirm, BTW.

The syntax for release isn't obvious. I expected --release to take a nickname like jammy. Autocompletion would make this a non-issue.

[debarshiray]

Toolbx has been shipping completions for fish since 0.0.99.4.

They do auto-complete --distro with the names of officially supported distributions, but not --release though. Although, the error does give a hint:

$ toolbox create --distro ubuntu --release jammy
Error: invalid argument for '--release'
The release must be in the 'YY.MM' format.
Run 'toolbox --help' for usage.

Do you know of a good way to map the alliterative code names of Ubuntu's releases to their month and year version numbers?

[debarshiray]

I tested with a fresh Fedora Workstation 40 virtual machine and the fish completions do work.

I am going to tentatively close this. Please leave a comment or open a new issue if you think I got it wrong.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

[er2]

That's fine. I think it's an issue with the Arch package

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[debarshiray]

That's fine. I think it's an issue with the Arch package

I see. Thanks for the confirmation!