This project contains some shell completion functions I've cobbled together for CMake. They currently contain project-specific customizations that won't be of much interest to people who aren't working on those same projects; however, they should serve as a good starting point for anyone wishing to develop his own set of completions. I also have plans to generalize the scripts to support "customizable customizations", but that could take awhile.
For Bash, I used CMake's bash completion
file
as a starting point, since I generally liked the approach it takes of using a
CMakeCache.txt file (if present) to generate completions for -D options.
But I didn't like how it leaves you 'flying blind' if you don't already have a
cache present, and the fact that options dependent on other options being set
(and therefore not yet in the cache) are invisible, so... I hacked the
original bash completion script to provide a little help even if you are
running cmake for the first time.
For Zsh, I started with this script and hacked it to support some (hard-coded) custom options for projects I'm working on. This script does not read from a CMakeCache.txt, but maybe I'll add that ability someday...
- Generalize the customization mechanism (maybe read customizations from a file, or autogenerate the completion script?)
- Add support to ABORT if the user is invoking CMake from a folder containing a CMakeLists.txt file (this is probably better handled via a shell wrapper function?)