Feature Vision Discussion: Completions/Hints

[sholderbach]

This issue is part of the larger vision discussion managed in #63 to brainstorm and prioritize ideas around features that would make reedline as a line editor for you both viable as well as pleasant to use. Feel free to up-vote features you depend on in other tools/shells as well as suggest new ideas!

Completions Features

• [ ] Ability to works as expected or better
  • [ ] File and folder completion
    • [ ] zsh-style partial path expansion
  • [ ] Environment variable completion $nu.env.A<tab>
  • [ ] Table column completion (ls).n<tab>
  • [ ] Sub-Command completion str <tab>
  • [ ] Other
• [ ] Ability to add external completions for things like git
• [x] Ability to make completions extensible

Hinting Features

• [ ] Ability to change the color of the hints
• [x] Ability to create hints from history
• [ ] Ability to have plugable hints specific to a vertical
  • [ ] Nushell
  • [ ] Azure
  • [ ] Dataframe/Polars/DataScience
  • [ ] Maths
  • [ ] Other
• [ ] Ability to complete hints with keybinding
• [ ] Ability to change location of hints
  • [ ] On prompt line
  • [ ] Under prompt line
  • [ ] On status bar at the top
  • [ ] On staus bar at the bottom

[sholderbach]

Current voting

Vote for the topic(s) you care about by selecting the corresponding emoji. (No judgement based on the emojis sentiment!)

• :+1: File path completion
• :-1: (environment) variable completion
• :smile: subcommand/flag completion
• :tada: completion extensibility (e.g. git with ref completion)
• :confused: history-based hints
• :heart: hint plugins
• :rocket: selectable style/behavior of hints
• :eyes: language grammar specific completion configuration (e.g. semantic suggestions, signature snippets, brace matching)