argcomplete

• Escape glob and brace metacharacters in quote_completions (#552)
• Quote prefix passed to compgen in FilesCompleter (#551)
• Remove deprecated easy_install script detection
• Type hinting improvements

• Make RE PCRE compatible. Fixes #539

  • Only execute Python interpreters (#536)

  • fish: set variable scope to local to avoid clobbering global or universal variables (#534)

  • Documentation and help improvements

• Revert "zsh: skip repeat Python runs in the same completion run" This reverts a regression introduced in zsh tab completion configurations utilizing multiple matchers.

• zsh: add global completion system install dir to user fpath if not present

  • Update shell_integration.py to support spaces in script file path. (#525)

  • Fix completion when wordbreak is first character (#526)

• Support namespace package traversal when completing Python entry points

  • zsh: skip repeat Python runs in the same completion run

  • Make _parse_known_args signature more general for future API changes

• Use interactive shells and bind to make environment variable name completions work in older Bash versions (#506)

• Fix _parse_known_args monkeypatching

Note this release is required to restore compatibility with Python 3.12.8 and 3.13.1.

• Restore compatibility with argparse in Python 3.12.7+ (#508)

• Use project.scripts instead of setuptools scripts (#498)

  • Test infrastructure improvements

• No stdin for python calls from bash completion functions (#488)

  Prevents usage of stdin by (python) executables that are called
  during completion generation. This prevents the completion locking
  up the entire shell when the python script is broken i.e. it enters
  an interactive mode (REPL) instead of generating the completions, as
  expected.
  

  • Localize shell variable REPLY to avoid overwriting users' value (#489)

    The variable REPLY is used by default by the read shell builtin to store the return value, and like all bash/zsh variables, is scoped globally. This change allows this variable to be used for other needs by appropriately scoping its internal use by an argcomplete utility function that uses read.

• Preserve compatibility with argparse option tuples of length 4. This update is required to use argcomplete on Python 3.11.9+ or 3.12.3+.

• Allow register-python-argcomplete output to be used as lazy-loaded zsh completion module (#475)

  • Move debug_stream initialization to helper method to allow fd 9 behavior to be overridden in subclasses (#471)

Expand tilde in zsh

• Allow explicit zsh global completion activation (#467)

• Fix and test global completion in zsh (#463, #466)

  • Add --yes option to activate-global-python-argcomplete (#461)

  • Test suite improvements

• Respect user choice in activate-global-python-argcomplete

• Escape colon in zsh completions. Fixes #456

• Call _default as a fallback in zsh global completion

• Use homebrew prefix by default

  • zsh: Allow to use external script (#453)

  • Add support for Python 3.12 and drop EOL 3.6 and 3.7 (#449)

• Ensure Python 3.12+ compatibility in check_console_script (#448)

• Search through asdf shims

• Use ` as escape character in PowerShell (#434)

• setup.py -> pyproject.toml migration start (#427)

  • Improve user install logic in activate-global-python-argcomplete (#437)

  • Ensure Python 3.7 compatibility in check_console_script (#436)

  • ZSH implementation fixes (#431, #433)

  • Documentation improvements

• Test suite shell wrapper: Accept OSError on exit

• Test suite: Use general regex to cut zsh reset ANSI sequences (#425)

• Allow importlib-metadata 6.x; skip test failures on Python 3.7 (#420, #424)

  • Note completers can return iterables of strings, not just lists (#422)

  • Documentation and test improvements

• Call _default as fallback in zsh global completion hook

  • Begin support for mapping-emitting completers

• activate-global-python-argcomplete: do not overwrite existing dotfile in user directory

• Add NOTICE file

• Establish long term name for split_line as argcomplete.lexers.split_line

• Re-add split_line to API (#419)

Fix zsh default completion issues

• Fix zsh autoload issues

• Fully support zsh. Argcomplete now supports completion descriptions and global completion in zsh.

• Clean up top level namespace.

• Documentation and test improvements.

• Test infrastructure improvements

• Indicate that there is no support commitment for fish and tcsh shells

• Documentation and test improvements

• Remove scripts for contrib-supported shells from global namespace

• setup.py: exclude test.* subpackages from find_packages (#406)

• Support PowerShell (#405)

• CI updates

• Revert "Support powershell (#392)"

• Truncate input after cursor. Fixes #351 (#352)

  • Support of path completion in fish #327 (#359)

  • Drop support for Python 2.7 and 3.5 (#361)

  • Add support for Python 3.10 (#356)

  • Test, documentation, and release infrastructure improvements

• Update importlib-metadata version pin (#345)

  • Display script debug output in tcsh (#342)

  • Fish support improvements (#338, #339)

  • Print warn() message from beginning of line (#335)

  • Test infrastructure improvements

• Update importlib-metadata dependency pin (#332)

  • Add change log project URL (#312)

  • Replace Travis CI with GitHub Actions (#323)

• Update importlib-metadata dependency version range

  • Bash nounset mode fixes (#313)

• Help string support for fish (#264)

  • Add option to use tempfiles for IPC (#307)

  • Fix multiple command registration for non-bash shells (#293)

  • Register auto completion for an arbitrary name using a given external script (#288, #296)

  • Skip completions from active subprocess completer (#289)

  • Fix warnings regarding invalid escape sequences (#286)

• Add -o bashdefault to register-python-argcomplete's output command (#284)

• Use shell builtins where possible (#280)

  • Switch from pkg_resources to importlib (#283)

  • Remove .sh extension by bash-completion convention (#281)

  • Catch exceptions in _check_module (#269)

  • Documentation and test improvements

• Do not suggest options after -- (end-of-options delimiter)

• Include all test directory contents in source distribution

• Trigger completers on --optional=PARTIAL_VALUE

  • Complete console scripts installed from wheels (#241)

• Fish support #68 (#260), thanks to @volkov

• check_module: Don't crash, exit with error instead (#261)

  • Register completion for multiple commands (#246)

• Use the correct interpreter when checking wrappers (#226)

  • Provide shellcode as a module function (#237)

• Fix handling of COMP_POINT (#236)

  • Fix crash when writing unicode to debug_stream in Python 2 (#230)

• Fix release

• Fix bug introduced in v0.7.1 where completers would not receive the parser keyword argument.
• Documentation improvements.

• Fix completion after tokens with wordbreak chars (#197)

This release contains work by @evanunderscore with numerous improvements to the handling of special characters in completions.

• Simplify nospace handling in global completion (#195)
• Specially handle all characters in COMP_WORDBREAKS (#187)
• Use setuptools tests-require directive, fixes #186
• Complete files using the specified interpreter (#192)
• Fix completion for scripts run via python (#191)
• Clarify argument to register-python-argcomplete (#190)
• Fix handling of commas and other special chars (#172); handle more special characters (#189)
• Fix handling of special characters in tcsh (#188)
• Update my_shlex to Python 3.6 version (#184)
• Fix additional trailing space in exact matches (#183)
• Adjust tests to handle development environments (#180)
• Fix tcsh tests on OSX (#177); Update bash on OSX (#176); Check output of test setup command (#179)
• Optionally disable duplicated flags (#143)
• Add default_completer option to CompletionFinder.call (#167)
• Let bash add or suppress trailing space (#159)

• Restore parser to its original state to allow reuse after completion (#150).
• Expose COMP_TYPE environment variable (#157). Thanks to Matt Clay (@mattclay).
• Test infrastructure and documentation improvements.

• Add support for tcsh (#155)
• Fix handling of unquoted completions containing $ (#154)
• Don't insert unnecessary leading quote char in completions (#152)
• Fix parser reuse with positional arguments (#149)
• Tests: Add simple pexpect tests for bash (#153); Add test case to verify #20 is fixed (#148)
• Thanks to @davvid and @evanunderscore for their work on this release.

• Packaging fix

• activate-global-python-argcomplete runs on Homebrew out of the box