On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 07:34:56PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 11:22:42AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 May 2015, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > 
> > >I wrote a script that parses curl --help output and generates a zsh 
> > >completion
> > >file. Once curl is built one can run "./zsh.pl src/curl > _curl" and then 
> > >move
> > >the _curl file under "/usr/share/zsh/site-completions/" and restart a 
> > >shell.
> > >
> > >Then "curl TAB", "curl -TAB", "curl --TAB", ... should provide help text 
> > >and
> > >information on the available options.
> > 
> > Lovely! I'll merge that one asap.
> > 
> > >The first attached patch fixes the format of the --help output
> > 
> > We should write up a test that verifies that we maintain the correct syntax
> > in the help output, so that we know scripts such as yours will keep working.
> 
> Not sure how that would look like though.
> 
> > Perhaps even provide more meta-data? I checked the
> > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/curl file in Debian. It is hand-coded
> > (for all I can tell) but also does rather fancy things for some of the
> > options...
> 
> Most of those options seem rather niche to warrant much work, but I guess
> similar support to the bash completion can be added if someone needs it.
> 
> Another thing I want to look into is completion for --no-* options as well.
> 
> > >It is not run as part of the build process right now, but I think it'd be
> > >nice to add a configure option to build and install the completion file.
> > 
> > I'm all for that. I would prefer to not have the new script in the root dir
> > though...
> 
> What about a scripts/ subdirectory? Some of the existing scripts could be 
> moved
> there too (e.g. contri*.sh, log2changes.pl).

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