Scog: Easily Generate Shell Completions for Any Binary (bash, Zsh, Fish)
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Scog is a tool that generates shell completions for any binary, and the community is generally supportive of the project, with a low-key discussion around its utility and potential applications.
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scog aims to solve this: you write one simple YAML file describing your CLI and it generates proper completion scripts for all three shells.
It's built on clap's battle tested generators, so you get proven, quality completions without maintaining shell-specific scripts
Suggestions welcome ;)