Messages during completion
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category:enhancement
status:needs-triage
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Description
Related problem
carapace has support for error and usage messages during completion.
In zsh and elvish these can be shown separate from the values.
In other shells the error messages are integrated as values in the format ERR{n} with the message as description.
Nushell has error, but it aborts the completion.
error make --unspanned {msg: "this is fishy"}
Describe the solution you'd like
Provide a way to show error and usage messages during completion.
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context and details
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no source files or tests. Start by locating Nushell's completion implementation and existing error handling, then compare the linked carapace behavior and Nushell error documentation; done means error and usage messages can appear during completion without aborting it.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100