I've improved my try from earlier to actually work - at least for http
directory paths. If you tab complete on an argument that is an
http://*/ then it will query 'svn ls' and autocomplete based on that.
I guess all that leaves is working out the partial filename/directory
completion.
On 3/22/07, Tim Connor <timocratic@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the fondest wishes of myself, and a number of devopers I know,
> is to be able to tab complete subversion URLs. I started to implement
> this in a ruby script, after being inspired by an autocompletion
> script for rake, when I came across the whole bash_completion thing.
>
> I haven't written more than 20 lines of shell script before, so I'm
> more looking for advice, than proposing this as ready to include.
> Down the road I'd like to add hostname completion from the auth
> folder, ala the ssh @hostname style - but that will require parsing
> how how that is handled, so definitely a future stage. Right now I
> just have this completing if it's http://a-path-ending-in-a-slash/, as
> a first step. Thoughts?
>
> My first problem is how I get it to return the nice non-prepending
> paths with multiple matchs, as it does now, but not kill my whole path
> when there is only one. After that I'm guessing the next step would be
> to do partial completions based on mapping against the ls results from
> the parent folder? Any advice on how to proceed with those in bash?
> Philosophical objects to the whole idea? other?
>
> Tim Connor
>
>
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Received on Sat Mar 24 00:27:00 2007