Interested in "more help" for tab completion?

dahlbyk / posh-git

A PowerShell environment for Git

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Interested in "more help" for tab completion? #851

Open dodmi opened 3 years ago

dodmi commented 3 years ago

Hi @dahlbyk,

I've quickly added some script code to improve the code completion with Ctrl+Space:

Basically it parses the output from git <mode> -h and adds hints:

for parameters with a "short" and a "long" versions, it puts the long version in brackets after the proposal.
the help text is displayed on the bottom

The parameter proposals itself are from your completion code.

The code is not really tested, but it seems to work fine in my environment. I wanted to ask, if you're interested in this addition.

Kind regards

dahlbyk commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the proposal! I'm intrigued, but wonder if/how it would interfere with the various tab expansion providers we need to support.

Feel free to open a Pull Request so we can have a look at the code. It may turn out that this fits better as a separate module you can maintain and integrate into the existing posh-git infrastructure.

dodmi commented 3 years ago

@dahlbyk Just to let you know, I've made a pull request for review. It's a bit strange. First, I had code to handle git diff -h differently. But afterwards, I noticed, that git diff -h output is different, when it's executed inside or outside a repository (and outside, it's "git-like"). Hopefully, this is the only mode, which is behaving like this.