[gmx-users] future of shell completions in GROMACS

[Mark Abraham]

Hi people,

Teemu's done some quick work getting bash completions more or less in
shape. Please try out the new 5.0-beta2 and let us know how it works. You
will need to source GMXRC and both gmx-completion* files

Thanks,

Mark


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsjerkw at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for bash completion!
>
> :)
>
> T.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Teemu Murtola <teemu.murtola at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:40 PM, <jkrieger at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > ok. I suppose I can try.
> > >
> >
> > If you want to help, I suggest starting from the completion files
> generated
> > by https://gerrit.gromacs.org/#/c/2590/ (they get generated to
> > src/programs/completion when you run 'make completion'). Those work for
> > bash; nothing is generated for others. For zsh, it might be easiest to
> try
> > to use the same completions with bashcompinit. As Szilard said, you don't
> > necessarily need to know C/C++ (although the code that generates the
> > completions is written with those). What we would need is help in
> > investigating how to implement the support in the first place, and for
> > that, it is sufficient to have an outline of how the generated
> completions
> > should look like for tcsh or zsh. And then it would be nice to have some
> > people actually try out the completions.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Teemu
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