Shell Completion for darcs

Darcs completion is available for some command line shells. With this in place, you can hit tab after ‘darcs’ on the command line, and the shell will offer possible completions of the sub-command or option names.

Bash Completion

A basic completion script is distributed with darcs. You can also download it. It’s possible it may just work seamlessly for you. For example, once bash-completion installed on Mandrake Linux, darcs completion works after the ‘darcs’ Mandrake package has been installed.

Otherwise you may need to add a line to your bash profile to manually source the file.

For fink users who have updated to darcs 1.01 or later, bash completion should “just work,” if you have also installed fink’s bash-completion package.

For OS X the following steps work:

• Edit the above script following http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2005-December/009073.html
• Add to ~/.bashrc: source ~/somepath/darcs_completion Alternatively if you use Darwin Ports you can do (better):
• port install bash-completion - this also enables lots of other fancy completions. Remember to follow the instructions r.e. adding a few lines to your ~/.bashrc.
• copy the above script (unmodified this time) to /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d/

Zsh Completion

Zsh completion scripts are distributed with darcs. You can download the completion file . The latest version of zsh (currently available from CVS) comes with darcs completion by default (for those that use compinit completion).

tcsh Completion

A simple tcsh completion:

complete darcs 'p/1/(initialize get add remove mv whatsnew record unrecord \
                    amend-record revert unrevert pull unpull rollback send \
                    apply push replace tag setpref diff changes annotate \
                    optimize check resolve dist trackdown repair)/' \
              'p/2/f/'

(taken from here.)

fish Completion

fish version 1.14.0 and later ship with command specific completions for darcs.

Emacs Completion

Completion in the Emacs shell is also possible. See the darcs emacs page for more information.