> Hi > >> How would it work on Unix? I assume that the command-line program just >> takes it's input "from the command line", so it doesn't get invoked >> until after you've finished typing the command...
Not necessarily true if completion is involved ... see below. > However, I know that zsh can do funky things like > autocompleting ssh paths etc - and I think I remember seeing that > there was some way a program could tell zsh what it could autocomplete > to - but that is a hazy memory from a while ago. Have a look at the (unreleased) bash completion for ghc-pkg: http://www.haskell.org/~kolmodin/code/ghc-bash-completion/ghc-pkg source it in bash to get it started. As you can see that ghc-pkg doesn't have special support for autocompletion, but it's possible anyway. To make it a bit simpler to write the completion, it's nice if the application in question has support for it. A nice example of this is darcs[1] which implements the command '--commands' and the flag '--list-option'. Cheers, Lennart Kolmodin [1] http://www.abridgegame.org/repos/darcs-unstable/darcs_completion _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
