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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.538s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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bbkane ◴[25 Aug 24 00:20 UTC] No.41343130[source]▶
Working on generating zsh tab autocompletion for my CLI framework. I'm finding it difficult because zsh makes completion surprisingly complicated and the zsh docs have a lot more descriptions than examples. Other CLI frameworks all seem to approach this differently.
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1. ivanjermakov ◴[25 Aug 24 00:45 UTC] No.41343298[source]▶
Skimming through this guide: https://dolthub.com/blog/2021-11-15-zsh-completions-with-sub... it seems to be a lot more convoluted than I thought. Really, every external CLI binary that supports completions has this autocomplete script?

I thought zsh parsed man pages to get available options/subcommands.

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2. bbkane ◴[25 Aug 24 00:53 UTC] No.41343349[source]▶
It seems like they all have DIFFERENT autocomplete scripts, some of which subshell out to the tool being completed to generate further completions.