Auto/Tab completion

[simon Participant]

Hi,

It would be fantastic to be able to auto complete site names and plugins/themes using the tab key ala command-line completion!

Thanks

Simon

[WordShell.Net Keymaster]

Hi Simon,

This bash completion script can complete site names. You’re welcome to send us an enhancement to complete other things if you have time to extend it!

# bash completion for wordshell
#

# This file must be updated with any changes to, or additions to the options.

_wordshell_completion()
{
    local cur prev prev_prev sites site
    COMPREPLY=()
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"

    [[ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 && -f $HOME/.wordshell/rc ]] || return 0

    case "${cur}" in
        *)
            sites=grep "^d*site#" $HOME/.wordshell/rc | cut -d# -f2 | grep ^$cur
            oldIFS="$IFS"
            IFS='
            '
            IFS=${IFS:0:1} # this is useful to format your code with tabs
            COMPREPLY=( $sites )
            IFS="$oldIFS"

            return 0
            ;;
    esac

    return 0
}
complete -F _wordshell_completion wordshell

David

[PaulinHalenria Participant]

Hi David,

How should we invoke this script ?
the variable assignment to “sites” sounds a little but corrupted by the editor. Or is it normal to have and " ?

[mikey Participant]

I am interested in this as well but am not very familiar with bash so can’t figure out how to fix line 17.

At the moment I’ve changed it to sites=grep 'site#' $HOME/.wordshell/rc | cut -f2 -d'#' | grep ^$cur but this causes the error: wordshell site#: command not found

Help would be appreciated!

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• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by  mikey. Reason: testing backticks

[mikey Participant]

Ok worked it out… Should’ve been obvious when I used code tags (`) in my previous post.

Line 17 should be something like:

sites=~grep '^d*site#' $HOME/.wordshell/rc | cut -f2 -d'#' | grep ^$cur~

But you have to replace the ~ characters with backticks!

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