Request: Provide shell-completions to stdout for a given shell

[kseistrup]

Hey,

When Leaf is installed system-wide, it would make more sense to also have the shell completions installed system-wide, rather than asking each user to individually install the completions for their shell.

Currently, as a packager, I can:

  for _shell in bash fish zsh; do
    env SHELL=$_shell HOME=$TMPDIR --auto-complete
  done

and I would then have to find the completions as

  $TMPDIR/.local/share/leaf/completions/leaf.bash
  $TMPDIR/.config/fish/completions/leaf.fish`
  $TMPDIR/.local/share/leaf/completions/_leaf
  # Ignore $TMPDIR/.bashrc and $TMPDIR/.zshrc

and install them in the package.

With the proposed change/addition, packagers could

  for _shell in bash fish zsh; do
    leaf --generate-completions "$_shell" > "_completions.$_shell"
  done

and have the completions available as

  _completions.bash
  _completions.fish
  _completions.zsh
  # And _no_ RC files

from where they can [more] easily be packaged, and they would be immediately available to all users.

Cheers.

[RivoLink]

Hi,
Okay, I'll implement it. Thanks!

[RivoLink]

Hi,

I added a new option to the leaf --auto-complete argument.
You can now use the following command to output the completion file to stdout:

leaf --auto-complete bash:dump

[kseistrup]

Sweet, thanks! 🙏