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[Feature Request] Autocompletion for devcontainer cli commands

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at the devcontainer CLI command definitions and trace how devcontainer feature test exposes the --skip-scenarios option. Determine where shell completion is configured or generated, then verify that typing devcontainer feature test --skip-s and pressing Tab completes to --skip-scenarios and works for the other CLI commands.

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Description

It would be helpful if the commands in the terminal will autocomplete.

I would like to see this feature added.

For example:

devcontainer feature test --skip-s

when hitting tab it should autocomplete to --skip-scenarios

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TypeScript
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