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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] completion: complete all possible -no-<options>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 01:36:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRkUrdtbyGEsY=DQCDoEWTrC-9n4=vKXHEap2gokB2uQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180417181300.23683-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem with completing --no- form is that the number of
> completable options now usually doubles, taking precious screen space
> and also making it hard to find the option you want.
>
> So the other half of this patch, the part in git-completion.bash, is
> to uncomplete --no- options. When you do "git checkout --<tab>",
> instead of displaying all --no- options, this patch simply displays
> one item: the --no- prefix. If you do "git checkout --no-<tab>" then
> all negative options are displayed. This helps reduce completable
> options quite efficiently.
>
> After all this "git checkout --<tab>" now looks like this
>
>     > ~/w/git $ git co --
>     --conflict=                   --orphan=
>     --detach                      --ours
>     --ignore-other-worktrees      --patch
>     --ignore-skip-worktree-bits   --progress
>     --merge                       --quiet
>     --no-                         --recurse-submodules
>     --no-detach                   --theirs
>     --no-quiet                    --track
>     --no-track

I haven't looked at the implementation, so this may be an entirely
stupid suggestion, but would it be possible to instead render the
completions as?

    % git checkout --<tab>
    --[no-]conflict=                   --[no-]patch
    --[no-]detach                      --[no-]progress
    --[no-]ignore-other-worktrees      --[no-]quiet
    --[no-]ignore-skip-worktree-bits   --[no-]recurse-submodules
    --[no-]merge                       --theirs
    --[no-]orphan=                     --[no-]track
    --ours

This would address the problem of the --no-* options taking double the
screen space.

It's also more intuitive than that lone and somewhat weird-looking
"--no-" suggestion.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-23  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17 18:13 [PATCH/RFC] completion: complete all possible -no-<options> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-04-18  3:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-18 15:08   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-04-23  5:36 ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2018-05-08 15:24   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-08 16:39     ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-09  3:20     ` Aaron Schrab
2018-05-14 17:14       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-14  3:33     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-05-14 16:39       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-14 17:03     ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-14 17:26       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-14 19:58         ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-27  8:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-05-27  8:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] parse-options: option to let --git-completion-helper show negative form Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-05-27  8:38   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] completion: suppress some -no- options Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-05-27  8:38   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] completion: collapse extra --no-.. options Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-05-29 18:48     ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-29 19:04       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-06  9:41   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] ompletion: complete all possible -no-<options> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-06-06  9:41     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] parse-options: option to let --git-completion-helper show negative form Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-06-06  9:41     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] completion: suppress some -no- options Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-06-06  9:41     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] completion: collapse extra --no-.. options Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

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