TCSH completion patterns and the pkg command

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Michael Grünewald wrote:

> Polytropon wrote:
>> The C shell is the system's _default_ interactive shell.
>> This statement does not carry any judgmental statement. :-)
>
> I was not sure any more about this, so I went lazy and blurry. :)
>
>> In my opinion, this is possible, but not easy. I'd say
>> it's easier to teach the C shell the completition rules
>> for the commands you want.
>
> I am not sure it easier to do so.  If we consider the special
> example of git:
>
> * We have several possible sort of completion lists:
>   remotes, branch names, tags, and commit hashs ? the latter
>   are commonly used for git commit --fixup et al.
> * We have a lot of subcommands having many options whose names
>   sometimes collide and do not always use the same arguments
>   (e.g. git diff -b and git checkout -b).
>
> It seems to me that it is very hard to propose pertinent
> completions for git if we do not take the current subcommand
> into account ? but frankly, I did not try very hard.

Some completions here, including some moderate ones for pkg:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/csh/completions