Tab completion

[mweinelt]

The biggest regression from using plain nix is that we don't have tab completion anymore. Do we have someone who is familiar with that kind of thing to make nom-build feel more like a drop-in replacement for nix-build?

[maralorn]

I need to do more research to modify the nixpkgs expression to "just do the right thing".

Until then in zsh you can put compdef nom-build=nix-build in your zshrc.

[SuperSandro2000]

For bash:

complete -F _nix_completion nom-build

I already started something hedning/nix-bash-completions#16 but I can't remember if that fully worked or was half broken.

[maralorn]

As of NixOS/nixpkgs#163441 we have zsh completion support in nixpkgs.

[maralorn]

For bash:

complete -F _nix_completion nom-build

I have just tried that command in a quick bash I started. That apparently didn’t work. Not sure what’s wrong.

[SuperSandro2000]

I have just tried that command in a quick bash I started. That apparently didn’t work. Not sure what’s wrong.

Either bash-completion loads things async and you first need to load the nix completion function or my patch is really necessary.
I have aliases nom to nix-build so everything just worked.

[maralorn]

With the new bunch of commands introduced now:

• nom-shell
• nom build
• nom develop
• nom shell

There is more todo on completion.

[maralorn]

Fixed around #151