[gmx-users] future of shell completions in GROMACS

[jkrieger at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk]

ok. I suppose I can try.

> 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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