On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem with completing --no- form is that the number of
> completable options now usually doubles, taking precious screen space
> and also making it hard to find the option you want.
>
> So the other half of this patch, the part in git-completion.bash, is
> to uncomplete --no- options. When you do "git checkout --<tab>",
> instead of displaying all --no- options, this patch simply displays
> one item: the --no- prefix. If you do "git checkout --no-<tab>" then
> all negative options are displayed. This helps reduce completable
> options quite efficiently.
>
> After all this "git checkout --<tab>" now looks like this
>
> > ~/w/git $ git co --
> --conflict= --orphan=
> --detach --ours
> --ignore-other-worktrees --patch
> --ignore-skip-worktree-bits --progress
> --merge --quiet
> --no- --recurse-submodules
> --no-detach --theirs
> --no-quiet --track
> --no-track
I haven't looked at the implementation, so this may be an entirely
stupid suggestion, but would it be possible to instead render the
completions as?
% git checkout --<tab>
--[no-]conflict= --[no-]patch
--[no-]detach --[no-]progress
--[no-]ignore-other-worktrees --[no-]quiet
--[no-]ignore-skip-worktree-bits --[no-]recurse-submodules
--[no-]merge --theirs
--[no-]orphan= --[no-]track
--ours
This would address the problem of the --no-* options taking double the
screen space.
It's also more intuitive than that lone and somewhat weird-looking
"--no-" suggestion.
