[ANNOUNCE] hg "shell" extension

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

Bash completion works very nicely, too.
-peo

On Feb 5, 2008 7:14 PM, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > I'm not aware of anything like this having been done before but maybe I
> > > just missed it.  For some reason I've decided it'd be "fun" to dive into
> > > playing with Python's readline interface and hacked up a prototype
> > > interactive Hg shell.
> > >
> > > The attached patch is a snapshot of how far I've gotten.  It applies with
> > > -p0 and adds a file "shell.py" to the hgext directory.  There are no
> > > other changes to the hg source.
> > >
> > > The "shell" extension implements an interactive commandline for hg,
> > > supporting editting, history and tab completion on command names, command
> > > options and global opions.  It should work on Unix systems, but I believe
> > > not on Windows (which lacks a Python readline module, apparently).
> > >
> > > The tab completion isn't yet as intelligent as it could be, since it
> > > doesn't understand which options should also have arguments and it's not
> > > able to complete filenames or revision IDs.  I'll hope to add these
> > > features in a future release
> >
> > The zsh completion script has pretty comprehensive context-sensitive
> > tab completion. I think the bash one is also pretty good, though I
> > haven't used it. Given that, the shell extension is probably best
> > suited for windows (or csh users and other inhabitants of purgatory).
>
> Thanks for the info!
>
> I'll give those completion scripts a playing with...  I would hope that a true
> hg extension for shell-like behaviour ought to be able to perform better than
> an external shell completion script and offer more-cunning behaviours, but I
> could be wrong here.
>
> This is quite fun stuff to play with though, so I'll be working on it
> regardless (and I need it for pmpu future developments).
>
> My current development code has much better context-sensitive intelligence,
> things are coming along nice and quickly.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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