From 5e8fab62dc79d50e1d4b447db9f6a70bcd14da42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:30:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] new argv bash completion

---
 argv.go    | 23 +++++++++++------------
 build      |  4 ++++
 main.go    |  6 ++----
 structs.go |  3 +--
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 build

diff --git a/argv.go b/argv.go
index 5af91c9..29c3ec0 100644
--- a/argv.go
+++ b/argv.go
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"os"
+
+	"go.wit.com/lib/gui/prep"
 )
 
 /*
@@ -58,17 +59,15 @@ regex -- interact with Googles' Gemini AI
 	handles shell autocomplete
 */
 
-func (a args) DoAutoComplete(argv []string) {
-	switch argv[0] {
-	case "playback":
-		fmt.Println("long --uuid purge last submit")
-	case "clean":
-		fmt.Println("")
-	default:
-		if argv[0] == ARGNAME {
-			// list the subcommands here
-			fmt.Println("--json interact playback clean")
-		}
+func (args) Appname() string {
+	return ARGNAME
+}
+
+func (a args) DoAutoComplete(pb *prep.Auto) {
+	if pb.Cmd == "" {
+		pb.Autocomplete3([]string{"--bash", "interact", "playback", "clean"})
+	} else {
+		pb.SubCommand(pb.Argv...)
 	}
 	os.Exit(0)
 }
diff --git a/build b/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2bcc277
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash -x
+
+mkdir -p files/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
+regex --bash > files/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/regex
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index e85db7b..42ec96f 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"embed"
 
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
-	"go.wit.com/dev/alexflint/arg"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/gui/prep"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/chatpb"
 	"go.wit.com/log"
@@ -32,9 +31,8 @@ var configSave bool
 
 func main() {
 	me = new(mainType)
-	prep.Bash(ARGNAME, argv.DoAutoComplete) // this line should be:  prep.Bash(argv)
-	me.myGui = prep.Gui()                   // prepares the GUI package for go-args
-	me.pp = arg.MustParse(&argv)
+	me.myGui = prep.Gui()       // prepares the GUI package for go-args
+	me.auto = prep.Bash3(&argv) // add support for bash autocomplete with go-arg
 
 	var err error
 	// load the default chat protobuf
diff --git a/structs.go b/structs.go
index fac6ee5..21a527c 100644
--- a/structs.go
+++ b/structs.go
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 
-	"go.wit.com/dev/alexflint/arg"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/gadgets"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/gui/prep"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/chatpb"
@@ -17,7 +16,7 @@ var me *mainType
 
 // this app's variables
 type mainType struct {
-	pp         *arg.Parser            // for parsing the command line args.  Yay to alexf lint!
+	auto       *prep.Auto             // more experiments for bash handling
 	chats      *chatpb.Chats          // all our prior conversations with regex
 	client     *genai.Client          // the Google Gemini AI client variable
 	ctx        context.Context        // global context. what does this acutally mean?