[task #16267] Autocompletion would be nice

[Boud Roukema]

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                 Summary: Autocompletion would be nice
                 Project: Maneage
               Submitter: boud
               Submitted: Sat 24 Sep 2022 07:28:56 PM UTC
         Should Start On: Sat 24 Sep 2022 12:00:00 AM UTC
   Should be Finished on: Sat 24 Sep 2022 12:00:00 AM UTC
                Category: Software
                Priority: 3 - Low
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00


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Date: Sat 24 Sep 2022 07:28:56 PM UTC By: Boud Roukema <boud>
Autocompletion of the './project' commands in the interactive shell would be
nice. This can really speed up work, reduce the chance of errors, and help the
user discover previously unknown options.

There are standard ways of implementing this - I've never done it.

Autocompletion rules would later have to be updated when adding/removing
commands and options to './project'.

Since ./project is about the only Maneage command that is normally run
directly, and often manually, probably it's the only one worth developing
autocompletion for.

I put this at 'low' priority, because a risk of making Maneage look too easy
could be that users underestimate the current state of Maneage - a very
experimental stage - and don't understand that they'll need to "look under the
hood". But probably nobody will object if someone implements this quickly...

Since './project' is only expected to require a minimal POSIX-like environment
and OS, autocompletion implementations might be highly OS-dependent, though
I'm just guessing here.








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