Modern Completion Framework

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Modern Completion Framework #48

Open nixpulvis opened 5 years ago

nixpulvis commented 5 years ago

Implement a framework for both built in and user added completions. This will be part of the a revised completion module, that retains the POSIX shell mode, but allows for much more in addition to the standard path, executable, ...

For example:

[ ] Nicer multi complete select
[ ] Hostname completion
[ ] man info parsing
[ ] Syntax elements
[ ] #60
[ ] Zsh compsys support

This may be used in the modern language as well as a more bash/zsh like extension of the POSIX base.

nixpulvis commented 1 year ago

Example use cases for generic solution:

Basic shell, obviously
Little calculator application
Some fun AI chatbot

I think it's worth keeping other use cases in mind here (even if we never make them) to help guide the interface design. Like, what does completion for a chatbot (RE)PL (or is it P((RE)+P) lol, escape analysis really is* a bitch) look like anyway? Why am I grouping the R and the E in REPL... a story for another day I hope.