Put your application-specific autocompletion ideas here

GijsTimmers commented 9 years ago

[x] apt Pressing Tab ↹ should yield: list search show install remove edit-sources update upgrade full-upgrade
[ ] apt-get Pressing Tab ↹ should yield: update upgrade install remove autoremove purge source build-dep dist-upgrade dselect-upgrade clean autoclean check changelog download
[ ] apt-cache Pressing Tab ↹ should yield: gencaches showpkg showsrc stats dump dumpavail unmet search show depends rdepends pkgnames dotty xvcg policy
[ ] ifconfig Pressing Tab ↹ should yield the various active internet connections: eth0 lo wlan0
[ ] zenity Pressing Tab ↹ should yield: --help-all --calendar --entry --error --info --file-selection --list --notification --progress --question --warning --scale --text-info --color-selection --password --forms
[ ] systemctl Pressing Tab ↹ should yield: start stop restart reload status is-enabled enable disable help daemon-reload
[ ] uname Pressing Tab ↹ should yield: --all --kernel-name --nodename --kernel-release --kernel-version --machine --processor --hardware-platform
[ ] git checkout Pressing Tab ↹ should yield all available branches.

jovanbulck commented 9 years ago

apt support done --> see branch pacman support is on the way :p

jovanbulck commented 9 years ago

Status update:

Autocompletion in master

autocompletion support for built_ins, aliases and a number of predefined UNIX commands now in master + some custom completion for some UNIX commands: git, apt-get, make, jsh --> should be stable, report here if not

Writing custom autocompleters (developers, developers, developers)

Autocompletion functions ("generators") go into jsh-autocomplete.c. I documented this file quiet well, since I lost a lot of time trying to understand how readline works. Anyone who feels like adding autocompletion support for some (usefull) command => go ahead and open a pull request! Should't be too hard, as I wrote a friendly macro who does everything for you ;-) Check out some examples in jsh-autocomplete.c

Future work

for the autocompletion of UNIX command names: we should scan all directories in $PATH at startup-time and put all commands in an array for autocompletion. Currently only a hack: array with widely used UNIX commands

jovanbulck / jsh