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The shell ought to be able to help with that. There's no need to remember if it's --conf or --config if you can press --conf<tab>. One of the things I like abo
by ufo 5y ago
The shell ought to be able to help with that. There's no need to remember if it's --conf or --config if you can press --conf<tab>.
One of the things I like about Fish is that by default it can tab-complete program options and also shows a one-line description of what each of them does. (It grabs that info from the man page).
- ori_b 5y agoSo much of computing is dedicated to solving problems that could be omitted.
- Joker_vD 5y agoI mean, that's precisely my thoughts on copyright and licensing in general but what can you realistically do?
- forgotmypw17 5y agoRealistically, on an individual scale, you can pretend it doesn't exist and go on with living your life?
- Joker_vD 5y agoI very much would if only that pesky State didn't persecute me for that. Apparently, when I refuse to acknowledge the copyright and software license terms, other people get upset to the point of bringing the wrath of that Leviathan of oppression upon me! The nerve of some people!
- salawat 5y agoSeriously. Just get up from the computer and go do something else. /s We computer people are truly an odd bunch.
- fouc 5y ago> and shell completion rarely works well if at all
- foxfluff 5y agoI just tried fish. xinput --set-[TAB] and nothing. Apparently it doesn't understand the standard long-option format that is supported by xinput and documented in the man page. You have to know to omit the dashes and then it'll complete. And it's downhill from there. Yeah I used to have all kinds of simple as well as supposedly sophisticated completion setups with zsh years ago but I've given up on it since then. It's always half-assed and half the time causes more problems than it solves. Same with bash. There are some places where I must resist the urge to try complete a filename because the shell starts trying to figure out which target it can complete from a Makefile in a large build system and just freezes. The only practical way out is to interrupt and type the command again or wait a stupidly long time. There are other issues like completion trying to be smart and filtering out things it thinks you don't want to complete. Nothing is more frustrating than a shell refusing to complete a filename that you know is there.
- throw10920 5y agoI run fish. I was able to get long-option completion for gcc, polybar, firefox, man, emacs, xrandr, and fish itself. The only command I was not able to get long-option completion for was xinput. You just picked a bad program to try.