Projects Already Doing Something Like Shellac - oilshell/oil GitHub Wiki

Back: Shell Autocompletion / Shellac Protocol Proposal

• https://github.com/szermatt/emacs-bash-completion
• https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/blob/master/xonsh/completers/bash_completion.py
• Closh (Clojure shell) gets completions from bash, zsh, and fish!
  • https://github.com/dundalek/closh/tree/master/scripts/completion
• A wrapper around bash completion to export completion to zsh: https://github.com/curusarn/bash-complete-api
  • openstack does not have a completion for zsh. This is how I used bash-complete-api to create zsh completion for openstack:
  • (From Simon Let via e-mail)

Other projects

• shell_completion in Rust is not a flag parser, but a shim that allows you to write completion plugins in Rust rather than bash.
• https://github.com/rsteube/carapace-bin

Other protocols

• https://shellcomp.github.io/ -- Shellcomp is a simple standard to perform completion. Completion is implemented in the command about to be run: The shell runs the command with a specific --tabcomplete '<partial_string>' option. The command responds with simple JSON structure that the shell will parse to perform completion or display help messages.