From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-11-15T18:00:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Autocompletion of commands & arguments

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Sophie <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I want to build a Ruby app with the following broad properties
>
> - Has some graph of objects, with a root R
> - each object (including R) has some methods, m
> - each m on each object has some args A
> - each A has a set of valid candidates values, defined by method
> candidates_A_m
> - the objects have (string) names
>
> I want to build a command-line interface which lets me:
>
> - start at the root R
> - invoke methods by typing in a prefix and using TAB
> - choose arg values by typing in object-name prefix and TAB
> - getting autocompletion or suggestion-list whenever possible
> - change my "working" location in the graph (like "cd") & continue
>
> I have not used Ruby in some time. Am looking for any suggestions on useful
> classes / libraries / methods / apps I should consider to make my life
> easier :-)

I haven't worked with it yet but I am almost 100% certain that you at
least want to take a look at "readline".

$ ri19 Readline
$ gem19 list -b readline

Kind regards

robert

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