[fiatjaf]

Are you just parsing the text and covering all those options? Or are you doing some sort of natural language processing?

I didn't meant something so abrangent, I meant something simpler. For example, `ls`:

Instead of `ls -l`, `ls complete` or `ls with metadata`.

Instead of `ls -L`, `ls following symlinks`.

Instead of `ls -a`, `ls all` or `ls with all`.

I don't remember exactly what I was thinking.

[willyg302]

I like this idea, but no, clip is about as simple as you can get. Direct greedy parsing one token at a time.

It seems like you could get something like your examples by doing option aliases, so typing "complete" or "metadata" would be parsed as `-l`. However even something this simple starts to complicate parsing quite a bit (e.g. where are the option boundaries?) especially if you allow multiple tokens in an alias, like "with all" --> `-a`.

And at the end of the day, it just helps to learn through repetition. I have no idea what the "plant" means in `netstat -plant`, but I know it generates the output I want. Similarly it's much easier to type `ls -latr` than "ls complete all sort oldest first".