Interactive CLI with tab-completion possible?

[kusibornhauser]

Hi

I really love Rich ❤️. I want to create an interactive CLI application (I don't know if that's the correct term), much like a CLI on a Cisco network device or similar. The Python Cmd2 project is pretty much what I mean - but I want to use rich because it's really beautiful.

Is it possible to create such CLI applications with rich? So that I have a command prompt, and can use tab completion to complete known commands? If so are there examples I can check?

Many thanks!

[willmcgugan]

Rich doesn't do this. But you can use cmd2 to handle the prompt and write any output with Rich.

[kotfu]

@kusibornhauser: I'm one of the maintainers of https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2. We have an open issue to investigate how we might make cmd2 more friendly to use with rich. I've done some preliminary work on the rich branch of tomcatmanager to see what it would be like to have an application that used both cmd2 and rich. So far, all the basics work fine with no changes to cmd2 required.

If you have specific items you are interested in having better support/integration for beyond the tab completion you mentioned above, please feel free to join the discussion on https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2/issues/1251.