Autocomplete to suggest values after flags have been added about murex HOT 3 CLOSED

What's happening with your code:

autocomplete set abc { [{
    "Dynamic": ( { -> %[ "xyz" ] } ),
    "Flags": [ "-foo" ],
    "FlagValues": {
        "-foo": [{
            "Flags": [ "bar" ]
        }]
    }
}] }

...is that xyz and -foo are both flags expected to be followed after the command.

The following code works as requested:

autocomplete set abc { [
    {
        "Flags": [ "-foo" ],
        "FlagValues": {
            "-foo": [{
                "Flags": [ "bar" ]
            }]
        },
        "optional": true
    },
    {
        "Dynamic": ( { -> %[ "xyz" ] } )
    }
] }

Where this differs is you're saying the first group is optional and -foo expects the value bar. The second group isn't optional and that returns the xyz value from your dynamic block.

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Thanks, that approach is working!

I've written a few autocompletions now and I thought I'd read the autocomplete builtin's documentation relatively thoroughly, but the concept of groups didn't really click for me until just now.

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Yeah, it's not really explained in the docs. The basic idea is the groups are to define position dependant parameters. While FlagValues define flag dependant parameters.

In your case you needed a mixture of two: flag dependant (for -foo) but also position dependant (xyz must follow any optional flags).

The gotcha with this is if xyz can come before or after -foo.

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