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Additional completion definitions for Zsh.
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How are these completions generated? #1061

Closed bartekpacia closed 8 months ago

bartekpacia commented 8 months ago

Hi, thanks to everyone contributing and maintaining this project.

I'm wondering how all these completions were generated? Surely no one types them by hand. Is there some tool that is usually used for generating completions out of commands --help?

syohex commented 8 months ago

Unfortunately most completion files are written by hand. Some completion files generates completion code. There are no specifications of --help output and a lot of commands use their own --help output, so it is difficult to parse them in common way.

BTW in these days, we could generate zsh completion files by using ChatGPT or AI systems.