Shell completions

Description

Contributor guide

Tech stack

rust

Domain

clitooling

Issue type

feature

DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.

3

Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.

half day

Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.

stale

ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.

mostly clear

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of RustFamiliarity with shell completion mechanisms

Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.

60

Research direction

The issue requests shell completions for hexyl. The codebase likely uses clap for argument parsing, which has built in support for generating shell completions via the `clap complete` crate. One possible approach is to implement a subcommand like `hexyl completions bash` or integrate with clap's completion generation. Look at the existing `src/main.rs` or `Cargo.toml` to see if clap is used. Also check if there are any prior discussions or comments about completion generation. The hexyl project may have a script or documentation for building, so consider how to integrate completion generation into the build process.