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Shell Completions

Spall can generate completion scripts for bash, zsh, and fish. Because operations are loaded dynamically from specs, the completion scripts query spall itself at runtime to suggest API names and operation IDs.

Bash

spall completions bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/spall
# or user-local:
spall completions bash > ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/spall

Zsh

spall completions zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_spall"

Fish

spall completions fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/spall.fish

How It Works

The generated scripts are thin wrappers around spall’s __complete hidden subcommand:

spall __complete <api> <partial-word>

This loads the spec (or its cached index if offline) and prints matching operation IDs and parameter names. Completion is fast even for large APIs because it uses the lightweight SpecIndex cache.

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