Feature suggestions

[keverw]

Been playing around with this for a CLI client before building a full on GUI. Had some ideas:

1. Tab support - command name or if sub command is next suggest that instead
2. Support single quotes for parameters - compute networkID 'a b c' currently gives a
   while compute networkID "a b c" gives an a b c
3. Function to display help for a certain command. For example if I use compute for as a namespace, if I type compute without a sub command following it, then I could show a list of sub commands help as if I typed help compute

Also curious, is it's possible to type while writing out text? I was playing with a CLI a few years ago and ran into that problem, but thinking it's probably some limitation in general. https://youtu.be/Q_E7ZFtoKY4 - I guess if that's the case then you wouldn't want to write anything to the console unless responding to a command.

[drew-y]

All good suggestions! Pull requests are welcome. 2 would be an easy one to do. 3 I'll have to consider how I want that behavior to work. Might just add a cli.showHelp method that could be called from within the command action. 1 is a little extensive, it'll be awhile before I can tackle that myself.

As for your last point, you can actually do that now as it stands. From the command action you'd want to call cli.hide() and then use something like node's readline api. Just remember to call cli.show() when you're done collecting input.

[keverw]

Yeah, one of my friends made a CLI a few years ago that had the tab thing. Readline has a completer method too. So basically would grab all the commands and subcommands combined and throw into an array I'd think. Then should be able to use the built-in completer maybe.

[mbwhite]

Hello - would you be open to updating the help command, so that the alias where shown on the same line as the full command?

EDIT: I mean would you be open if I made a PR for this :-)

[drew-y]

Oops. Did not mean to close this.

@mbwhite I would absolutely be open to a PR for that.