[Konsole-devel] [Bug 179039] GUI for BASH (possibly other shells as well) autocompletion feature

[Robert Knight]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179039


Robert Knight robertknight gmail com changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Robert Knight <robertknight gmail com>  2008-12-29 18:41:56 ---
I like the feature itself - code-completion style popups for auto-completion in
the shell.  I have thought about this before - the first suggested approach is
I think unfeasible for reasons you have already listed.  The second suggested
approach (using D-Bus or some similar protocol for shell <-> terminal
communication) would work locally but what about through network connections
(SSH etc.)?  

I also do not think it would be a good idea to add D-Bus based communication to
traditional shells like zsh or bash.  These programs have operated the same way
for decades and I can well imagine that people have come to depend on this
behaviors or would be upset if major new dependencies were added to them.  Plus
their code-bases are written in fairly low-level C and therefore not that
efficient to prototype or experiment with.  For these reasons I think it would
be better to start with a new shell, either from scratch or maybe by adapting
an existing project like ipython, ossh or the hotwire core.


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