Newman: Missing Bash Completion

[SwapnilSoni1999]

Issue

• newman is missing bash completion. This can lead to some initial problems for newcomers.
• One might not be able to understand or sometimes forget the arguments.

to solve

• We can add omelette for autocompletion.
• Or write custom bash script for autocompletion. (but issue with this is other shells such as fish or zsh will require their own specific completion)
• So using such packages can help to create more user friendly experience especially for newcomers.

Also I would like to work on this issue as well.

[mohitranka]

@SwapnilSoni1999 This would be indeed useful. Can you create a proposal ( A small comment, indicating how the completion would work ) for us to review ?

[SwapnilSoni1999]

Proposal

• Create a command and subcommand/arguments list
• Create a documentation for each respectively
• Use omelettelib and write bash completion code
• Test and publish

How will it work

• users can just press tab key in their terminal when newman is written
• after pressing tab a bash completion/suggestion will appear in terminal
• so users can select desired argument/command to execute.
• Each arg will be displayed with its small, one line documentation/instruction.

If you are interested then I can submit a proposal over Gsoc. :)

[nimit2801]

Hey @SwapnilSoni1999 did you submit the proposal?

[SwapnilSoni1999]

Hey @SwapnilSoni1999 did you submit the proposal?

No I haven't but I'm still gonna contribute to this after a week or so

[nimit2801]

I would love to help, this seems to be a great feature.
We can work together, if that's ok?

[SwapnilSoni1999]

I would love to help, this seems to be a great feature.
We can work together, if that's ok?

Sure man, I'll comment here once I start working on it

[mohitranka]

Bash completion is a simple functionality, and we don't want to package another dependency for it, due to package size and LICENSE management reasons.

cc @codenirvana

[SwapnilSoni1999]

Bash completion is a simple functionality, and we don't want to package another dependency for it, due to package size and LICENSE management reasons.

cc @codenirvana

Alright then I'll go for dependency-less approach 👍

[nimit2801]

Hows the research coming @SwapnilSoni1999 , want some help with it?
Also, I had this idea if we keep an option for users to use this feature or not and according to that, we can install the extra package into the main library!
I mean the package won't come under dependency but can be installed by the user for further assistance with the cli.
Can we try something like this @mohitranka cc @codenirvana .