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⏩ Shell completion for vet

Command-line completion or Shell completion is a feature provided by shells like bash or zsh that lets you type commands in a fast and easy way. This functionality automatically fills in partially typed commands when the user press the tab key.

  • To enable shell completion for vet for various shells follow the below steps

1. Identify your current environment shell​

❯ echo $SHELL

/bin/zsh

2. Generate the completion command for your shell​

❯ vet completion zsh -h

Generate the autocompletion script for the zsh shell.

If shell completion is not already enabled in your environment you will need
to enable it.  You can execute the following once:

    echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc

To load completions in your current shell session:

    source <(vet completion zsh); compdef _vet vet

To load completions for every new session, execute once:

#### Linux:

    vet completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_vet"

#### macOS:

    vet completion zsh > $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions/_vet

You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

3. Run the commands to setup completion​

echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc
source <(vet completion zsh); compdef _vet vet
vet completion zsh > $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions/_vet

4. Open new shell and you can see the completion activated​

❯ vet [tab]

vet autocomplete