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by dschoon 5912 days ago
Fish shell (http://fishshell.org) performs essentially the same sort of completion for many classes of files based on context. I've found the complete subsystem to be quite pleasant compared to bash, and I recommend it to anyone interested in trying out this sort of thing.
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While lightning can handle classes of files, it's more aimed at abstracting full paths to their basenames. If you can give an example where fish shell do this efficiently, I'd be interested to know. FYI, here's a previous comparison on writing shell functions vs lightning functions: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bpodn/lightning...