Improve shell completions
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type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
Click supports providing more information on parameters, so that the generated shell completion files are more helpful.
Together with #1141 this supersedes #1034, #1062 and #937
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- 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 concerns Click-generated shell completion files and points to related work in #1141; start by reading that issue alongside this one. Confirm which parameter information should be exposed and locate the relevant Python CLI completion entry point; done means generated shell completions include the agreed additional information.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100