Please add shell completions

[ypoluektovich]

With bash-completion installed, I get nice completions — specifically, completions of known man pages — for man but not qman. It's not too hard to type a man command and then jump to the beginning of the line and type q, but it's a little annoying.

[plp13]

I use zsh, and simply added to my .zshrc.local:

alias man='qman'

However, you are right. Shell completions would be nice. And contributions are welcome :-)

[ypoluektovich]

Huh, I completely forgot about aliases. That works for me on bash too, thanks.

As for contributing a completion for qman, I'll try to look into it. From what I gathered so far, the completion provided in man-db is rather complex, so my first instinct is to try to reuse it somehow, possibly falling back onto empty completions in case of failure.

[plp13]

Qman implements many of man's command-line arguments, such as -k, -f, and -l. So, reusing man-db's completions might not be too difficult.

BTW, here's my full set of aliases:

# Use qman in place of man
alias man='qman'
alias apropos='qman -Tk'
alias whatis='qman -Tf'