Re: [Amforth] Filename completion for the amforth shell

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

Hi Keith,

> Nice.  Maintaining completion while supporting search directories 
> invalidates my original solution for completion and implementing it 
> is definitely a jump in complexity.

But its very convenient. Simply saying "#include marker.<TAB>" and
to get it without having trouble to find the right directory is really
cool.

> I think another limitation is that the use of the #cd directive to 
> change directories won't work in files any longer.

I dont think that this is a showstopper for the fully recursive
file lookup. You dont need to do a change dir if all files are
directly available. The list of the base directories could
be expanded at runtime, maybe.

> os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.join(wd, filename))

python's path magic is only for the brave.

> This will essentially return the union of the glob matches for the 
> supplied completion text in all possible search directories if the 
> completion text is not already an absolute filename.  It might get 
> slow if you have a lot of large directories on your search path, but 
> I suspect it will be fine.  I also expect I didn't get it really 
> right but I think it should be close enough that you could get it 
> working if you started with this.

I'll give it a try. Thanks.

Matthias