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NAME

Complete::Fish - Completion module for fish shell

VERSION

This document describes version 0.060 of Complete::Fish (from Perl distribution Complete-Fish), released on 2020-01-29.

DESCRIPTION

fish allows completion of option arguments to come from an external command, e.g.:

% complete -c deluser -l user -d Username -a "(cat /etc/passwd|cut -d : -f 1)"

The command is supposed to return completion entries one in a separate line. Description for each entry can be added, prefixed with a tab character. The provided function format_completion() accept a completion answer structure and format it for fish. Example:

format_completion(["a", "b", {word=>"c", description=>"Another letter"}])

will result in:

a
b
c       Another letter

FUNCTIONS

format_completion

Usage:

format_completion($completion) -> str|array

Format completion for output (for shell).

fish accepts completion reply in the form of one entry per line to STDOUT. Description can be added to each entry, prefixed by tab character.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • $completion* => hash|array

    Completion answer structure.

    Either an array or hash, as described in Complete.

Return value: Formatted string (or array, if `as` key is set to `array`) (str|array)

HOMEPAGE

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

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Complete-Fish.

BUGS

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

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.

SEE ALSO

Complete

Complete::Bash

Fish manual.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020, 2016, 2015, 2014 by 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.