From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57673: [PATCH] Parse --help messages for pcomplete Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:39:22 +0200 Message-ID: <877d2e3urp.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87zgfagqfs.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19626"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 57673@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Augusto Stoffel Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 14:54:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWH2f-0004vT-4l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54060 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWH2e-0000Yg-20 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWGp8-0001IH-Kr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40569) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWGp8-0001cN-C0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oWGp8-0006qs-5V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:40:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57673 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 57673-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57673.166264077626285 (code B ref 57673); Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57673) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Sep 2022 12:39:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57499 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oWGoh-0006pt-QC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:55210) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oWGof-0006pa-C7 for 57673@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:39:33 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID :Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=35jN/Jt9i6TEWBPgsX0c5sDygw5yjjolvN5+Rm/WQpc=; b=kWN5tq+Ul7Wuh9pM3IFxlole8/ 1S/oHcE+AkgpTQtiCr+k6VRbVSLTh0kcRtkioFqDuaRuRODjwNQPebHnvqMuecbXYdVxh6jNYoTya 84+KtM94MFOJeiC3pdh+8bw6gi0SBmqpGwEvw9z9XK81L7QkyH5+F7hUHLtXkkUNVwnI=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWGoV-0002JF-34; Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:39:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87zgfagqfs.fsf@gmail.com> (Augusto Stoffel's message of "Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:34:31 +0200") X-Now-Playing: Melvin Gibbs's _4 + 1 equals 5 for May 25_: "=?UTF-8?Q?3=E2=80=99_?= =?UTF-8?Q?27=E2=80=9D?=" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:241869 Archived-At: Augusto Stoffel writes: > Find attached a =E2=80=9Cworse is better=E2=80=9D approach for pcomplete,= where we parse > help messages to generate a list of completions. Hm, interesting. Perhaps Stefan has comments here; added to the CCs. > This is still a sketch. I've added pcomplete functions for a random > selection of commands to see if this works reasonably, and I think it > probably does. But in any case I don't think it would make sense to try > and add completions as detailed as the ones bash provides; there is an > awful lot of logic in the files under /usr/share/bash-completion and I > don't think anyone would want to redo that work. I'm wholly unfamiliar with how bash does completions. But is there any reasonable way to reuse the bash completion framework here?