"fixing oddities with fuzzy searching and bug with active help"

nushell_completions.go

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ let cobra_apps = ["%[1]s"]
 
 # An external completer that works with any cobra based
 # command line application (e.g. kubectl, minikube)
-let cobra_completer = {|spans| 
+let-env cobra_completer = {|spans| 
   let cmd = $spans.0
 
   if not ($cobra_apps | where $cmd =~ $it | is-empty) {
@@ -43,44 +43,96 @@ let cobra_completer = {|spans|
    
     let last_span = ($spans | last | str trim)
 
-    # skip the first entry in the span (the command) and join the rest of the span to create __complete args
-    let cmd_args = ($spans | skip 1 | str join ' ') 
+    def exec_complete [
+      --fuzzy,
+      spans: list
+    ] {
+      let params = {
+        last_span: ($spans | last | str trim),
+        spans: $spans
+      }
+      
+      # If there is an equals in the last span
+      # parse the span into two
+      let params = if $last_span =~ '=' {
+        let split = ($last_span | split row '=')
+        if ($split | length) > 1 {
+          {
+            last_span: ($split | last),
+            spans: ($spans | drop | append ($split | first) | append ($split | last))
+          }
+        } else {
+          {
+            last_span: '',
+            spans: ($spans | drop | append ($split | first) | append '')
+          }
+        } 
+      } else {
+        $params
+      }
 
-    # If the last span entry was empty add "" to the end of the command args
-    let cmd_args = if ($last_span | is-empty) {
-      $'($cmd_args) ""'
-    } else {
-      $cmd_args
+      let last_span = $params.last_span
+      let spans = $params.spans
+
+      # Drop the last param so we can fuzzy search on it
+      let spans = if $fuzzy {
+        $spans | drop
+      } else {
+        $spans
+      }
+
+      # skip the first entry in the span (the command) and join the rest of the span to create __complete args
+      let cmd_args = ($spans | skip 1 | str join ' ') 
+
+      # If the last span entry was empty add "" to the end of the command args
+      let cmd_args = if ($last_span | is-empty) or $fuzzy {
+        $'($cmd_args) ""'
+      } else {
+        $cmd_args
+      }
+
+      # The full command to be executed with active help disable (Nushell does not support active help)
+      let full_cmd = $'COBRA_ACTIVE_HELP=0 ($cmd) __complete ($cmd_args)'
+
+      # Since nushell doesn't have anything like eval, execute in a subshell
+      let result = (do -i { nu -c $"'($full_cmd)'" } | complete)
+
+      # Create a record with all completion related info. 
+      # directive and directive_str are for posterity
+      let stdout_lines = ($result.stdout | lines)
+      let directive = ($stdout_lines | last | str trim | str replace ":" "" | into int)
+      let completions = ($stdout_lines | drop | parse -r '([\w\-\.:\+\=]*)\t?(.*)' | rename value description)
+      let completions = if $fuzzy {
+        $completions | where $it.value =~ $last_span
+
+      } else {
+        ($completions | where {|it| $it.value | str starts-with $last_span })
+      }
+
+      {
+        directive: $directive,    
+        completions: $completions
+      }
     }
 
-    # The full command to be executed with active help disable (Nushell does not support active help)
-    let full_cmd = $'%[7]s=0 ($cmd) __complete ($cmd_args)'
-
-    # Since nushell doesn't have anything like eval, execute in a subshell
-    let result = (do -i { nu -c $"'($full_cmd)'" } | complete)
-
-    # Create a record with all completion related info. 
-    # directive and directive_str are for posterity
-    let stdout_lines = ($result.stdout | lines)
-    let directive = ($stdout_lines | last | str trim | str replace ":" "" | into int)
-    let completions = ($stdout_lines | drop | parse -r '([\w\-\.:\+\=]*)\t?(.*)' | rename value description)
-
-    # filter completions that don't contain the last span, for fuzzy searches
-    let filtered = ($completions | where $it.value =~ $last_span) 
-    let completions = if not ($filtered | is-empty) {
-      $filtered
+    let result = (exec_complete $spans)
+    let result = if (not ($last_span | is-empty)) and ($result.completions | is-empty) {
+      exec_complete --fuzzy $spans
     } else {
-      $completions
+      $result
     }
 
+    let directive = $result.directive
+    let completions = $result.completions
+
     # Add space at the end of each completion
     let completions = if $directive != $ShellCompDirectiveNoSpace {
-      ($completions | each {|it| {value: $"($it.value) ", description: $it.description}})
+      $completions | each {|it| {value: $"($it.value) ", description: $it.description}}
     } else {
       $completions
     }
 
-    if $last_span =~ '=' {
+    let return_val = if $last_span =~ '=' {
       # if the completion is of the form -n= return flag as part of the completion so that it doesn't get replaced
       $completions | each {|it| $"($last_span | split row '=' | first)=($it.value)" }
     } else if $directive == $ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp {
@@ -93,12 +145,20 @@ let cobra_completer = {|spans|
     } else {
       $completions
     }
+
+    $return_val
   } else {
     null
   }
 }
+
+
+ 
+
+
+
 `, name, ShellCompDirectiveError, ShellCompDirectiveNoSpace, ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp,
-		ShellCompDirectiveFilterFileExt, ShellCompDirectiveFilterDirs, activeHelpEnvVar(name)))
+		ShellCompDirectiveFilterFileExt, ShellCompDirectiveFilterDirs))
 
 	_, err := buf.WriteTo(w)
 	return err