refaktor/rye

FEATURE: Tab completion in interactive console?

xplshn opened this issue · 7 comments

xplshn commented

Hi, could such a thing be added to Rye? I find the console the easiest way to interact and experiment with the language, and having tab completion would help a lot :)

refaktor commented

Hi. We had tab completion from the start but lost it when we rewrote from liner package to our own microliner.go to be able to unify the native and the web (browser based) console. We also lost some other things along the way that I must place back in. Like history was saved between sessions, ability to do import\live, and not all key shortcuts fully work yet.

I will look into how autocomplete was implemented back then and try to replicate it.

For exploring the language via console please see this w-i-p doc: https://ryelang.org/cookbook/binary_console/console/

Having good and very useful console is one of more important goals for Rye. There is still work to be done though.

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refaktor commented

BTW: to explore rye-fyne in console try using cc fyne and then lc , lc\ "entry". You can't yet list generic methods which I'm working on (and general search).

xplshn commented

BTW: to explore rye-fyne in console try using cc fyne and then lc , lc\ "entry". You can't yet list generic methods which I'm working on (and general search).

Thanks, that's pretty good!

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refaktor commented

I made the tab completion work in microliner too, and improved it to a degree. This is the first iteration, but it completes tabs and displays a list of words amongst which you are switching below. This proposes all words from the current Rye index (all defined words) in current program state.

With Ctrl+s you get a list of words in current context and you can tab-swich over them. This is usually a much shorter list and is more usefull to just press even if you haven't typed in anything.

This is the first version. It currently just works on the first word of the console line and many details will get improved.

With this I am closing this issue. Thanks for posting it. (#380)

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refaktor commented

I am reopening until I:

  • make it work no just on first word in a line
  • make it work on op-words and pipe words
  • make currently selected word bold
  • Maybe / bonus: ctrl+s or specific shortcut work on generic words based on the last returned value
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refaktor commented

I Finally found time to work on this ... tab completion now works for words in the middle of line (nor first, not last) and also for op and pipe words. So I am closing this issue.

Thanks for your suggestions and those script contributions so far! I will get to that also at some point, but work is currently wery spread out so it goes slow, a lot with basic stuff like console details, test / docs framework, etc ...

Your further feedback is welcome!

xplshn commented

Thanks! I'm working on a project of my own, the AppBundleHUB, a repo with tons of AppBundles that get compiled/built weekly and automatically. I've added rye-fyne, however, the binary size is bigger than I'd like, so I'm working on making it smaller.