Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Martin Krischik wrote:

> Sadly VMS never really used CLD to it's full potential. Just imagine CLD
> combined with bash'es advanced comandline completion! Not only commands
> and files could be completed - options as well.

I recently discovered that Bash can do that if you define completion
specifications. I had thought that only the Z shell had that feature. Look
for "Programmable Completion" in the Bash manual.

The problem is of course to keep the completion specification in sync with
the command line parser in the actual program. Some day I'll write an
extension to Orto that will take the same Parameter_Spec that Orto uses and
output a completion specification for Bash or Zsh.

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