What would you like to see improved in Qubes OS?

disp6252 · June 20, 2023, 2:29pm

You mean bash-completion? Can’t you already use it as it is?
If you want completion for qubes tools then it’s a work in progress:

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

Make tab completion for qvm-, qubes- and other QubesOS-specific commands

opened 06:19AM - 16 Nov 22 UTC

jamke

T: enhancement C: other ux P: default community dev S: planning

### The problem you're addressing (if any) The tab completion for `qvm-`, `qube…s-` and other Qubes OS specific commands is not working in Qubes OS. ### The solution you'd like The proposal is to make it work, providing and completing supported arguments and possible values when possible. Examples: `qvm-ls --run` and `<tab>` => `qvm-ls --running` `qvm-ls --t` and `<tab>` => `qvm-ls --tags` `qvm-ls --tags` and `<tab><tab>` => shows the list of existing TAGs if possible `qvm-ls --` and `<tab>` => shows the list of possible arguments the usual bash-way And support of the list of **names of qubes (VMs)** - would be great! Imagine you type in `qvm-clone `, you press `<tab>` and get not the list of files in the current directory, but the list of VMs suitable for this place: `qvm-clone ` and `<tab>` => shows the list of existing VMs `qvm-clone pe` and `<tab>` => `qvm-clone personal` `qvm-clone sys-` and `<tab><tab>` => shows the list of existing VMs that start with `sys-`, because there is more than one. ### Details * I think it should be a small separate package with a name like `qubes-bash-completion`. * The list of arguments can be easily taken from docs, `--help` and `man` when available. * The `bash-completion` package can be used as prototype and and style standard. Here are a lot of examples that cover all cases: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/tree/master/completions ### Problems The only downside of such improvement - the completion information should be kept updated with the commands, the same way as documentation and `--help` output now. ### The value to a user, and who that user might be It will **significantly** improve UX of Qubes OS users who uses terminal at least from time to time (almost everybody, I think).