Re: Making tab-complete.c easier to maintain

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:49:20PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:27 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > Agreed that the "whole new language" aspect seems like way too big a
> > hammer, given what it actually does.
>
> Which would be easier to update when things change?

This question seems closer to being on point with the patch sets
proposed here.

> Which would be possible to automatically generate from gram.y?

This seems like it goes to a wholesale context-aware reworking of tab
completion rather than the myopic ("What has happened within the past N
tokens?", for slowly increasing N) versions of tab completions in both
the current code and in the two proposals here.

A context-aware tab completion wouldn't care how many columns you were
into a target list, or a FROM list, or whatever, as it would complete
based on the (possibly nested) context ("in a target list", e.g.)
rather than on inferences made from some slightly variable number of
previous tokens.

Cheers,
David.
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