As my time with linux, I created a lot of scripts. Some of them have input parameters and sometimes I just forget this parameters.
So I wonder if there is some way to create autocomplete parameters, like i autocomplete a path by pressing the tab key?
For example a script. ./test.sh can be completed with parameter-one, eg. ./test.sh parameter-one
or ./test.sh parameter-two
. If i type now ./test.sh followed by tab it should add parameter-one if i press tab again it should change to parameter-two.
How can I do that? I’m on bash…
Here’s an article that does this: https://iridakos.com/programming/2018/03/01/bash-programmable-completion-tutorial
I have done this for one of my own tools
ta
, which is a function that switches to a tmux session, or creates it if it doesn’t exist:# switch to existing tmux session, or create it. # overrides workdir if session name is "Work" function ta() { case "$1" in Work) workdir="${HOME}/Work/" ;; *) workdir="${HOME}" ;; esac if tmux has-session -t "$@" &>/dev/null; then tmux switch-client -t "$@" else tmux new-session -A -D -d -c "${workdir}" -s "$@" tmux switch-client -t "$@" fi } # complete tmux sessions # exclude current session from completion function _ta_completion() { command="${1}" completing="${2}" previous="${3}" [[ "${command}" != 'ta' ]] && return current_session="$(tmux display-message -p '#S')" IFS=$'\a' COMPREPLY=( $(tmux list-sessions -F '#{session_name}' | grep -i "^${completing}" | grep -v "^${current_session}$"| tr '\n' '\a' ) ) } # enable completion for ta function complete -F _ta_completion ta
Usage
$ tmux (starts session "0" by default) $ ta Personal # create session "Personal" because it doesn't exist $ ta Work # create session "Work" because it doesn't exist $ ta <tab> 0 Personal $ ta P<tab> -> $ta Personal $ ta <tab> 0 Work
Espanso is probably the most useful software that nobody is using. I can’t live without it.
I hope it gets an update soon…
Its .YML formatting is really clunky. It feels like it takes up twice as much line space as .AHK (for example), which can do a lot of this kind of stuff in a single line. But I wanna go cross-platform and this is all I can find…
I like YAML, as long as you aren’t using complicated syntax. Using the
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operator will get you some flexible usage that’s mostly easy enough to read. YAML definitely has its problems though. If you want, I can share some snippets of my config.Sadly though, due to Espanso not having a working RPM build for Wayland (or a Flatpak, which they’re working on), it’s not quite as cross-platform as I want it to be. It won’t work on any of the cool uBlue-derived distros that I’ve gravitated toward, so I’m hoping we get a nice, big update this year.
Did you put in a request for this? And sure, I’m always interested in seeing how others use it—especially to complex levels.
It took me a while to get around to this so I could sanitize some of the highly-personal stuff there (mostly just a bunch of URLs because I don’t use browser bookmarks lol), but here’s a condensed version of what I like to use Espanso for.
The second half is …interesting. I wanted a way to autofill passwords from my password manager in any application, not just a browser. It’s a very homebrewed solution, and it only works on Windows and Linux because macOS blocks tools like Espanso from viewing or modifying login input fields.
Did you put in a request for this?
For a Wayland Flatpak or RPM? I haven’t looked in a long time, but I believe there’s an open issue for a Wayland RPM.
Edit: Found them: Flatpak issue and RPM issue.