[gmx-users] future of shell completions in GROMACS

[Szilárd Páll]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:50 PM,  <jkrieger at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I +1 shell completions too. It would be ok for me too if they were only in
> bash. I think my default shell on the cluster may be tcsh but I can change
> it to bash if necessary.
>
> I'd be happy to try helping to implement it but I don't have much
> experience in C or C++ (I mainly use Python).

You need no C/C++ knowledge to help with this,  it's all bash!
See:
http://redmine.gromacs.org/projects/gromacs/repository/revisions/master/entry/scripts/completion.bash
http://redmine.gromacs.org/projects/gromacs/repository/revisions/master/entry/scripts/completion.csh
http://redmine.gromacs.org/projects/gromacs/repository/revisions/master/entry/scripts/completion.zsh


>
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Djurre de Jong-Bruinink
>> <djurredejong at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Do you use this feature?
>>>>Do you use this feature with a shell other than bash?
>>>
>>> Yes, I use this feature and missing it would be a great loss to my
>>> workflow. However, I only use it in bash. Is the auto-completion planned
>>> to work for files only, or also for the tools (e.g.: gmx gro<tab>
>>> auto-completes to gmx grompp). I noticed this doesn't work in the
>>> beta-version either.
>>
>> I guess that doesn't work because the auto-completion has not been
>> adapted from 4.6 to 5.0. IMO we should fix this, but it'd be great to
>> get a few more +1-s and helping hands, otherwise there is a risk of it
>> getting deprecated which would be a big loss.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On a slightly related issue: the enviroment variable "GMX_NO_CREDITS"
>>> doesn't work anymore in gmx5b. That made my work in the terminal a lot
>>> easier too (Not that I think you guys don't deserve the credits!). Is
>>> that planned to be reimplemented? I also find the template/layout of the
>>> "credits-section" less structured and appealing than in the old version.
>>
>> Do you mean less structured and less appealing? Could you please file
>> a redmine issue about GMX_NO_CREDITS and whatever else you;d like to
>> mention?
>>
>>>
>>> Best regards/groetnis,
>>> Djurre
>>>
>>>
>>> ****************************************
>>> Djurre H. de Jong, PhD
>>> Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
>>> Institut für Physikalische Chemie
>>> Corrensstr. 28/30
>>> D-48149 Münster
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