Now that I think about it, don't some IDE offer tab completion on functions found in a support language's standard libraries and names of variables and functions defined within the source code file being edited? It's been a long time since I used an IDE and it's a use case that doesn't come up in an end user context, so it slipped my mind. On 11/28/21, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One place where I find tab completion quite useful is in things like the > program > known as doctl, which interfaces to the DigitalOcean API, which I use to > control > DNS for my website domains. This saves me a little time in most cases, as I > > don't have to log into the website and find the necessary links, buttons and > > controls to change a dns record. These days, I do this rather infrequently, > so > going to the website is probably fine, but I still tend to use the doctl > command > when I need to make a small change here or there, especially if I need to > add a > temporary TXT record that I will be deleting in a short time. > > This doctl program has a completion command that generates tab completions > for > various shells. So even before I authorized doctl to connect to my account > for > the first time, I just ran > > doctl completion bash >> ~/.bashrc > > > and I get tab completions for all the commands and flags available on the > doctl > command line. So for example, if I want to update an existing record, I > would > normally need to run this command > > doctl compute domain records update --record-id 123456789 --record-data > 12.34.56.78 > > But with the completions in place, all I need to run is > > doctl c <tab> do <tab> r <tab> u <tab> --r <tab> i <tab> 123456789 --r <tab> > d > <tab> 12.34.56.78 > > Yes, I still have to get this record ID, which is in fact a 9-digit number > in > many cases, but I can pipe > > doctl c <tab> do <tab> r <tab> ls domain.ext > > into a file and paste the ID I want into the update command. It is certainly > a > roundabout way of doing things, but it can still be faster than logging into > the > website and finding the DNS controls there. It would be really good to have > a > zenity or yad interface to this program, and maybe I'll get around to > scripting > something like this at some point. For now though, tab completion works > quite > well here once the completion mappings are added, even if I'm just copying > the > doctl configuration from one machine to another so tha I don't have to > reauthorize the program. > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list