Autocompletion files

[exploide]

Glad to see the new release of cheat, thanks for all the work! I'm sure it will be at least as useful as the previous version :)

I noticed there are no more autocompletion files on the current master branch. I really valued the tab completion for cheatsheets in the past. This gets especially interesting when package maintainers start packaging cheat v3.

I assume completions for the most widely used shells are needed:

• bash (adding the cheat autocomplete script back :) #479)
• zsh
• fish (Autocompletion for fish #496)

[chrisallenlane]

Yeah, shell completion is one of my higher priorities now, and for the shells you've listed. I need to read up on how to implement this properly, but I agree that this is a priority.

I also plan on investigating how we can use fzf and rg or ag for fuzzy real-time searching. I really like even the simple fzf integration implemented already, and I'm interested in taking it further.

[chrisallenlane]

The 3.5.0 release implemented improved bash autocompletions, and provided a much-improved fzf integration.

That being the case, I'm going to remove the "priority" label from this ticket for now. bash support is currently excellent, fish support is pretty good, and I think bash completions can be used in a zsh context.

If that assertion is untrue, I welcome PRs from zsh users. I have minimal experience with zsh personally.

[chrisallenlane]

Actually, I'm just going to close this ticket.

I did some further research, and am convinced that zsh users can benefit from the bash autocompletions. Amusingly, I also know that this can be done with cheat specifically, as this article used cheat in its example 😄

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-source-bash-completion-script-file-in-zsh/

[roachsinai]

Actually, I'm just going to close this ticket.

I did some further research, and am convinced that zsh users can benefit from the bash autocompletions. Amusingly, I also know that this can be done with cheat specifically, as this article used cheat in its example

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-source-bash-completion-script-file-in-zsh/

Method above not work for me on Manjaro, konsole, zsh.

Settings:

hmank ~ » cat ~/.zshrc | head -2            
autoload bashcompinit
bashcompinit
hmank ~ » cat ~/.zshrc | tac | head -1      
source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/cheat
hmank ~ » 

Get error:

hmank ~ » ct vim_cheat:3: command not found: _init_completion
_cheat:3: command not found: _init_completion
_cheat:3: command not found: _init_completion
ct

[digsim]

This can be fixed by adding the following snippet on top of the cheat.bash file

_init_completion()
{
    COMPREPLY=()
    _get_comp_words_by_ref cur prev words cword
}

[nerd190]

Hi! thank you for cheat its awesome!
Unfortunately, completions do not work in Termux, I am sometimes away from my PC and would like to look up answers, it says "unsupported os: android". As your binary will run on Android, with or without Termux (same for 'fzf') perhaps "android" should be added as a supported OS? 90% of Android phones nowadays are aarch64 (ARM), the other 10% are x86 (Intel). Thank you again for cheat, it is appreciated!