Add file completion to the REPL #5343
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Oh and it doesn't know about string macros of course (e.g. it will attempt file completion within regexps, but I don't see this as worse than attempting variable/method names completion). |
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This is a great feature! |
only active within strings/commands, or when the line starts with ';'
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Changed to work within backticks as well, plus improved to use different word-breaking rules than for julia (e.g. I'll merge soon if there are no objections. |
Add file completion to the REPL
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This is so nice. Thanks for doing that. Doing shell stuff in the Julia REPL is now very nearly as slick as doing it in the shell itself (slightly less so because I use zsh which has all sorts of tricked out context-sensitive tab completion, but still, this is so great). |
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My pleasure. Anyway, I think that the biggest win of this change will turn out to be this ;) |
I know the readline REPL is going to be substituted with pure julia, but since that does not seem to be as imminent as I used to think and since not having file completion is really annoying, I patched the repl-readline code to do file completion on tab under two circumstances: 1) within strings 2) when the line starts with
;.The fist case is a bit complicated to do properly and the resulting code is not really nice looking, but it mostly works (most common cases such as escaping and similar are covered; I hope I haven't missed anything obvious; the only situation I can think of where it would fail to work properly is a string within an interpolation within a string, but surely there are other failure scenarios if one tries hard enough). Anyway, this is code which is supposed to be short-lived, and I think it's still better than what we have now.