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fish shell completions

See original GitHub issue

It would be amazing if httpie could default-install completions for the awesome fish shell.

Reference: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/#where-to-put-completions

Example of other great tools that does this:

ll  /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
.rw-r--r-- 4.4k root root 25 Apr 13:48 bat.fish
.rw-r--r--  51k root root 11 Mar  2:24 docker.fish
.rw-r--r--  12k root root  9 May 17:38 rg.fish

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:12 (8 by maintainers)

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mqudsicommented, May 23, 2020

Fish core developer here.

We are always happy to upstream completions directly into the fish codebase, if you like. Fish ships with hundreds of hand-written “dynamic” completions that go far beyond merely state-machine-based deduction of autocompletion parameters and can provide “dynamic” logic based on introspecting the command line and even executing commands at runtime (e.g. the aws s3 completions allow you tab-complete s3 paths by executing s3 ls and parsing the results incrementally).

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exploidecommented, May 13, 2020

Additionally, things become different for other programming languages and environments. The Rust tool fd for example generates the completion files automatically using Clap. The fd project then creates own deb packages with its CI system. This deb will of course contain the autocompletion files. But there is no guarantee Debian, Ubuntu and the others produce the package the same way. On the other hand, rpm packages are not produced by fd’s CI. Fedora maintains the necessary spec file by its own and incorporates the completion files there explicitly.

Packaging is a mess 🙄

PS: It is not always necessary to request that from package maintainers. Often they find the files by themselves within the source and include them. But they are all human beings and some don’t care initially about shell completions and some others have no idea what the heck fish is 😄

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