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I think that autocomplete, as is known from programming editors (IDE's) would work really well for discoverability in a text based shell. I don't know if anyone have tried to implement that?



You mean shell completion? It's been done in varying forms quite a lot.


Well, yes, but I was thinking something a bit more verbose and p-front than just the old press-tab-to-autocomplete. Or did you have something else in mind?


I was thinking of this sort of thing, http://furius.ca/optcomplete/doc/sample-output.html, but I've a feeling I've seen it done better than that somewhere but can't track where.




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