Autocompletion blocked?

[tschmidtb51]

I use jsonschema from a virtual python environment. However, if I try to use tab navigation to autocomplete folders / filenames or it does not work. Is that a problem in my setup or do others have the same problem?

[jviotti]

Hey @tschmidtb51 , are you pulling in from Pip? We have the autocompletions, but I don't think you can setup autocompletions automatically through PyPI as they need to be on system directories usually. Or maybe I'm wrong? For example, here is how we do it for Homebrew: https://github.com/sourcemeta/homebrew-apps/blob/main/Casks/jsonschema.rb#L14-L15, and for the Snap: https://github.com/sourcemeta/jsonschema/blob/main/snapcraft.yaml#L20.

I'm not a Python guy, but if you know how we could do it, happy to explore it

[tschmidtb51]

are you pulling in from Pip?

Yes.

We have the autocompletions, but I don't think you can setup autocompletions automatically through PyPI as they need to be on system directories usually. Or maybe I'm wrong?

Thank you for the hint. Even though I appreciate the autocomplete for commands and options, I was wondering why the usual folder autocomplete is not working.
But maybe that is the reason.

I suggest to keep the discussion open to see if someone else from the community can verify or explain it.

[jviotti]

What OS are you in? Because in theory, you can pull the files directly from https://github.com/sourcemeta/jsonschema/tree/main/completion, put them where your OS / distro of choice expects them, and they would just work. Could be an extra config in .bashrc or .zshrc. Not super elegant though. And maybe there are ways to do it automatically through pip somehow... worth the research.