nushell completion locations

locations.md

Completion locations

Command head

Completion types:

• Internal commands and subcommands
• External commands
• Files (executable)

Location(s):

• Beginning of a pipeline
• command <subcommand>

Positional argument

Completion types:

• Based on signature

Location(s):

• command <arg>
• ... | command <arg> ... | ...

Named argument

Completion types:

• Flag names (from signature)

Location(s):

• command -<short> ...
• command --<long> ...

Named argument value

Completion types:

• Based on signature

Location(s):

• command -f <arg>
• command --flag=<arg>

Variable

Completion types:

• Variable names from context
• Argument names from alias

Location(s):

• $<var>
• $a.b.<var>

Math expression

Completion types:

• Operators

Location(s):

• = value <op> value