man pages and shell autocomplete support

[arisboch]

Is it possible to have the install script install man pages and support for the autocomplete functions of shells (e.g. of bash, fish, zsh and so on) on a Linux system?

[mikf]

Apparently It is possible (youtube-dl does so in its setup.py),
but there are currently neither man pages nor autocomplete files for this project.

[arisboch]

Apparently It is possible (youtube-dl does so in its setup.py),
but there are currently neither man pages nor autocomplete files for this project.

Well, it is a request for a feature not yet there.

[mikf]

v1.8.1 comes with a bash completion script and two man pages (one general, one for config file options). They all could most certainly be improved, but at least it's something.

zsh completion works with a simple compdef _gnu_generic gallery-dl, so I didn't bother with an explicit completion script for it.

[kattjevfel]

Gonna try my luck here and ask if we can't get zsh completion included, with the current solution I have source the completion file in my .zshrc directly and it's just all around an ugly workaround. Understandable if you don't wanna bother with it :p

[mikf]

@kattjevfel I hope this works: d0cd86e
(it did when I tested this locally, but you never know ...)

[kattjevfel]

scrapped message
nvm I was a dum dum and oh-my-zsh was acting up, works fine after deleting .zcoredump! Thanks!

EDIT 2: okay I got it to work once and never again..

katt@main ~ » gallery-dl
file:      ftp://     gopher://  http://    https://

[mikf]

Try putting a dash or double dash after gallery-dl and then pressing TAB:

$ gallery-dl
file:      ftp://     gopher://  http://    https://

$ gallery-dl --
--abort                 -- Abort extractor run after N consecutive file down
--chapter-filter        -- Like "--filter", but applies to manga-chapters an
--chapter-range         -- Like "--range", but applies to manga-chapters and
--clear-cache           -- Delete all cached login sessions, cookies, etc.
...

If you don't provide any input after gallery-dl, it expects an URL and tries to complete the start with file: ftp:// gopher:// http:// https://

[kattjevfel]

Oh, right. Yes that works. I kinda just went with how the bash completion worked (or maybe misbehaved?).

Thanks again!