/company-arguments

company backend for command line arguments

Primary LanguageEmacs Lisp

company arguments

This package is in the early stages of development, and there are surely edge cases that are not handled correctly. The current implementation is using --help and parsing the output. Here are some of limitation that are immediately apparent.

  • doesn’t handle “old style” arguments (e.g. -name, -dir, -depth, etc)
  • doesn’t support arguments bundling (i.e. transforming -A, -B, -C, into -ABC)
  • stuggles with case insensitive matching

improvement areas

  • handle argument bundling
  • provide default values for arguments that accept them (e.g. --color=auto --color=never)
  • using caching to improve performace (the backend is asynchronous, so it will never block, but some commands can still take a while to respond)
  • create a blacklist of commands that this backend can’t handle (e.g. git, find, etc)
  • handle command aliases