New fully featured bash completion for go - written in go

[Eyal Posener]

Simple to install (Assuming GOPATH and PATH are correct):

go install github.com/posener/complete/gocomplete
gocomplete -install

Features:

• Complete go command, sub commands and flags.
  
• Complete package names, .go files and ellipsis when necessary.
  
• Complete test names after -run flag!
  

Works with bash / zsh shells

This is also a package, that enables writing bash completion scripts, or add them to an existing go program.

Please, open issues, contribute and star!

[Jonathan Yu]

Nifty! Do the bash completion scripts need to be dynamically regenerated? I guess so for some of the features like completing on package names.

It seems useful to have some Go completions (e.g. go in<TAB> == go install) available as part of distro packages.

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[Eyal Posener]

Thanks!

On Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 10:03:25 PM UTC+3, Jonathan Yu wrote:

Nifty! Do the bash completion scripts need to be dynamically regenerated? I guess so for some of the features like completing on package names.

Not sure I understand your question, but the bash completion script does not need to be regenerated.

What happens under the hood is that there is a go binary that completes the next word. the go binary is called by the shell when the tab key is pressed.

What that tells the shell to call that binary for completion is a line in the bashrc or zshrc, which does not need to be changed, and is added when you type `gocomplete -install`. 

It seems useful to have some Go completions (e.g. go in<TAB> == go install) available as part of distro packages.

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Eyal Posener <pos...@gmail.com> wrote:

Simple to install (Assuming GOPATH and PATH are correct):

go install github.com/posener/complete/gocomplete
gocomplete -install

Features:

• Complete go command, sub commands and flags.
  
• Complete package names, .go files and ellipsis when necessary.
  
• Complete test names after -run flag!
  

Works with bash / zsh shells

This is also a package, that enables writing bash completion scripts, or add them to an existing go program.

Please, open issues, contribute and star!

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[Frank Schröder]

This is awesome. I've immediately started working on https://github.com/magiconair/consulcomplete :)

Frank

[Eyal Posener]

Frank, sweet!

Notice that you can build custom completions, such as completing agent names in consul exec -node <node-name> and service names after -service and so on.

Also, you may suggest to add this code to the main consul repo.

[Frank Schröder]

I'll look into this. So far I've spent 30 min on this. :) which dir pattern should I use for directory completions so that the suggestions don't start with ./ ?

Eg consul agent -server -data-dir ./data

Frank Schröder

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[Eyal Posener]

On Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 9:06:45 AM UTC+3, Frank Schröder wrote:

I'll look into this. So far I've spent 30 min on this. :) which dir pattern should I use for directory completions so that the suggestions don't start with ./ ?

currently all relative directories are completed with the `./` prefix, Does it make any problems? 

[Frank Schröder]

It's not how other completions work, it's redundant and makes it harder to read.

Frank Schröder

[mhh...@gmail.com]

looks awesome!!

In this,
https://github.com/posener/complete/blob/master/example/self/main.go

Just wonder why i can t simply do something similar to,

var name string
whatever.StringVar(&name, "name", "", "Give your name", complete.PredictAnything)

if whatever.Run() {
return
}

Anyway, great stuff here!

[Eyal Posener]

Sure, open an issue, I'll fix that

[Eyal Posener]

The right installation commands are:

go get github.com/posener/complete/gocomplete
gocomplete -install

You can also view the code in https://github.com/posener/complete