Bash completion improvements

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Bash completion improvements #331

Open jkbrzt opened 9 years ago

jkbrzt commented 9 years ago

[ ] Complete common HTTP method names
[ ] Complete common HTTP header names
[ ] Complete URLs: perhaps using known hosts like ping or ssh does and known URLs from various sources
[ ] Complete options values (e.g. -s <tab>, --style=<tab>, --auth-type<tab>, etc.)
[ ] Update the Homebrew formula to install the completion support

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mihirvj commented 9 years ago

I'll look into this over next few days

jkbrzt commented 9 years ago

This looks quite interesting: https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete

So does the way Django does it for manage.py.

mihirvj commented 9 years ago

Yes. I was looking into argcomplete previously. Couple of issues I found were that requirement of a new package argcomplete. Also, it requires additional setup like activation of global python autocomplete. Wasn't entirely sure whether to go that way. Django way looks more interesting.

I understand that writing a different bash script for autocompletion will add an overhead in case options change, so better to include it in python.

I'll see which one to dig deep into. Any suggestions?