[gmx-users] future of shell completions in GROMACS

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

Also, current developer discussion can be found here
http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1410, and experience and input even for
bash is welcome!

Mark


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Past versions of GROMACS supported source-ing completion.* shell files
> from the installation directory, so that you could do things like
>
> grompp -f myinp
>
> followed by a tab keypress to do UNIX-style command completion that would
> correctly work out that myinputfile.mdp was an appropriate completion and
> (say) myinputfile.gro was not.
>
> For 5.0 this is going to be more tricky to support, because GROMACS usage
> will change to
>
> gmx grompp -f
>
> so the machinery will need some updates. We plan in 5.0 to provide
> symlinks to the old toolnames (where feasible), which will keep some of the
> old machinery working, but so far support for tab completion for the tools
> as subtools of gmx is a work in progress. In particular, the necessary
> mechanism is different for different shells, and so far there's nobody
> enthusiastic about supporting shells other than bash.
>
> Some feedback here would be welcome!
>
> Do you use this feature?
> Do you use this feature with a shell other than bash?
> Do you use this feature with a shell other than bash and are willing to
> put some work into GROMACS to keep it working after 5.0?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>