NAME

testcomp - Test your tab completion

VERSION

This document describes version 0.180 of testcomp (from Perl distribution App-CompleteUtils), released on 2022-01-16.

SYNOPSIS

Usage (place caret sign (^) somewhere to place cursor):

% testcomp [testcomp-options] -- <your-script> [your-script-options]^ ...
% testcomp [testcomp-options] -- <your-script> '[your-script-options]^ ...'

Examples:

% testcomp -- yourscript --opt1 val --opt2
% testcomp -Ilib -- 'yourscript --opt1^  --opt2 val'

DESCRIPTION

This utility will run your script (finding it in PATH if not found in current directory) while setting COMP_LINE and COMP_POINT to test how your script will perform shell completion. In addition to that, it will also load Log::ger::Output::Screen and set TRACE=1 to let you see trace log messages.

You can place caret sign (^) somewhere in the argument to place cursor (set COMP_POINT)>. If no caret sign is present, COMP_POINT is put at the end of COMP_LINE.

OPTIONS

--include=dir, -I

Like Perl's -I.

--shell=SHELL, -s

Set shell. Currently this has a single effect: if shell is set to tcsh, then COMMAND_LINE will be set for the program instead of COMP_LINE and COMP_POINT. If unspecified, will be detected using Shell::Guess->running_shell.

--bash

Shortcut for --shell=bash.

--fish

Shortcut for --shell=fish.

--tcsh

Shortcut for --shell=tcsh.

--zsh

Shortcut for --shell=zsh.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-CompleteUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-CompleteUtils.

SEE ALSO

App::CompleteUtils

You can use this utility to test scripts using these frameworks: Perinci::CmdLine, Getopt::Long::Complete, Getopt::Long::Subcommand. But actually all scripts which can complete itself by detecting COMP_LINE and COMP_POINT can be tested.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla plugin and/or Pod::Weaver::Plugin. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-CompleteUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.