TODO: Add auto-complete support for the Console driver.

[josher19]

I can help with the auto-complete. I've landed commits to improve the completer docs for Node and the REPL for LiveScript (a nice fork of CoffeeScript).

Are you just looking for auto-completing most of the commands listed under "help" when running

% bin/prey -d console

---

So, for example,

prey> wa[TAB]

would expand to

prey> watch 

and

prey> watch g[TAB]

would expand to

prey> watch geofence

and so on.

[ghost]

Good idea! Currently we are working on a full refactoring of both the configuration and the Prey agent console layers. Those are using a modified version of operetta and commander. What library or steps do you have in mind to achieve autocompletion?

[josher19]

readline.createInterface can have a completer sent as the third argument.

One way using the existing (prey v0.9.2) code would be to have it use all output from the help module which starts with a tab or space.

I'll send a pull request with proposed changes.

[josher19]

Originally coded against v0.9.2 but applied it to the conf/refactor branch for this pull request.

Does not directly use operetta or commander so should work on any branch.

% bin/prey -d console

Can get some more of the gory details by doing:

% bin/prey -D -d console

but you can hide those in production by setting

var debug = false;

or deleting the lines starting with if (debug)

PS: while you are refactoring, you might consider changing shortcuts of --debug (-D) and --driver (-d)
because of old windows case-sensitivity issues.

Cheers,
->> Joshua S. Weinstein <<-

[josher19]

This solution uses help.show and uses any line that begins with a space or tab and a letter as possible completions (thus skipping lines that begin with " >"). So if you change the help command it will automatically change the completions.

If you change the "config" help to be like:

prey> help config
Sets or gets a config setting.
config [update|read] [key]

Sub-commands:
    update
    read

Possible keys:
    driver
    host
    api_key
    device_key
    campfire
    imgur
    ...

then doing

prey> config [TAB]

will have these completions:

update
read
driver
host
api_key
device_key
campfire
imgur

More about the readline completer in the node docs:
http://nodejs.org/api/readline.html#readline_readline_createinterface_options

[josher19]

If you also want command line auto-completion of the argument list in bash for Linux, you can take a look at:
https://github.com/josher19/complete

Not sure how compatible with operetta it is as it requires optimist.

[tomas]

Not really sure at which point this was merged but it's already on master. Thanks @josher19!