Unquote output of bartib projects?

[neezer]

Often I want to start more work on an existing project—non-contiguous, so bartib continue isn't a good fit—and I don't want to retype the name of the project.

I've been doing this with fzf but I have to manually scrub-out the quotes, eg.

bartib start -p "`bartib projects | fzf | tr -d '"'`" -d "whatever"

What I'd like to do is this:

bartib start -p "`bartib projects | fzf`" -d "whatever"

... but presently that double-quotes the project name in the bartib file.

Maybe I'm getting some shell wizardry wrong, but I feel like this would all be easier of bartib projects just outputted lines of text instead of quoted lines of text.

[nikolassv]

I never considered piping the project list to fzf. That is a neat idea! I will definitely incorporate that into my workflow.

The reason for the quotes around the project names is that I needed them for the autocompletion script in bash: https://github.com/nikolassv/bartib/blob/master/misc/bartibCompletion.sh. For the autocompletion, I needed each project name as a distinct string. Perhaps there is some better way to achieve this, but I wouldn't change the behavior of that command now as other users scripts may depend on it.

Perhaps it is feasible for you to create an alias or a bash function to start a new activity and select the desired project?

[neezer]

For the autocompletion, I needed each project name as a distinct string.

I tried manually unquoting the project list and using the bash completion, and it worked the same?

I think because IFS is set to \n and the script is using -W, completion terms are already being split by newlines regardless of quotes.

# create a project list without quotes
bartib projects | sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//' > test.txt

# change completion to use unquoted list
sed -i \
  's/ALL_PROJECTS=.*$/ALL_PROJECTS=\`cat test.txt\`/' \
  bartibCompletion.sh

# source the update
source bartibCompletion.sh

# try it out
bartib start -p proj<TAB>

I tested with project names with & without spaces, and in both cases it appeared to work... suggesting maybe the quotes aren't necessary for bartib projects? Is there some nuance I'm missing?

[nikolassv]

Thank you for trying it out. I will take another look at it. Perhaps the completion script can indeed work without the quotes.

Still, I would avoid changing the standard behavior, as this may break someone else's script. Perhaps we could add a --no-quotes flag to the bartib projects subcommand to suppress the quotes instead.