Put your application-specific autocompletion ideas here

[GijsTimmers]

• apt
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield:
  list search show install remove edit-sources update upgrade full-upgrade
• apt-get
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield:
  update upgrade install remove autoremove purge source build-dep dist-upgrade dselect-upgrade clean autoclean check changelog download
• apt-cache
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield:
  gencaches showpkg showsrc stats dump dumpavail unmet search show depends rdepends pkgnames dotty xvcg policy
• ifconfig
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield the various active internet connections:
  eth0 lo wlan0
• zenity
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield:
  --help-all --calendar --entry --error --info --file-selection --list --notification --progress --question --warning --scale --text-info --color-selection --password --forms
• systemctl
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield:
  start stop restart reload status is-enabled enable disable help daemon-reload
• uname
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield:
  --all --kernel-name --nodename --kernel-release --kernel-version --machine --processor --hardware-platform
• git checkout
  Pressing Tab ↹ should yield all available branches.

[jovanbulck]

apt support done --> see branch
pacman support is on the way :p

[jovanbulck]

Status update:

Autocompletion in master

autocompletion support for built_ins, aliases and a number of predefined UNIX commands now in master + some custom completion for some UNIX commands: git, apt-get, make, jsh --> should be stable, report here if not

Writing custom autocompleters (developers, developers, developers)

Autocompletion functions ("generators") go into jsh-autocomplete.c. I documented this file quiet well, since I lost a lot of time trying to understand how readline works. Anyone who feels like adding autocompletion support for some (usefull) command => go ahead and open a pull request! Should't be too hard, as I wrote a friendly macro who does everything for you ;-) Check out some examples in jsh-autocomplete.c

Future work

for the autocompletion of UNIX command names: we should scan all directories in $PATH at startup-time and put all commands in an array for autocompletion. Currently only a hack: array with widely used UNIX commands