[Bug]: zsh completion does not show item descriptions

[svonjoi]

What happened?

fabric --listpatterns <Tab>
fabric --listtrategies <Tab>

does nothing

Operating System

Linux - amd64

OS Version

NAME="EndeavourOS"
PRETTY_NAME="EndeavourOS"
ID="endeavouros"
ID_LIKE="arch"
BUILD_ID="2025.03.19"
ANSI_COLOR="38;2;23;147;209"
HOME_URL="https://endeavouros.com"

How did you install Fabric?

from sources

Version

v1.4.446

the completion is installed manually from the following definition

https://github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/09f306ad2b6ecf9eceadd64eec2aed6c4c8dcc2d/completions/_fabric

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[ksylvan]

Works on my Mac.

Also here is another one with --li[TAB]

[ksylvan]

Also, this works as you would expect:

$ fabric --liststrategies
Available Strategies:

aot               Atom-of-Thought (AoT) Prompting
cod               Chain-of-Draft (CoD) Prompting
cot               Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting
ltm               Least-to-Most Prompting
reflexion         Reflexion Prompting
self-consistent   Self-Consistency Prompting
self-refine       Self-Refinement
standard          Standard Prompting
tot               Tree-of-Thought (ToT) Prompting

And then:

$ fabric --strategy s[TAB]
Strategies:
self-consistent  self-refine      standard

Lists the strategies starting with s

[ksylvan]

Similarly for patterns:

$ fabric --pattern analyze_[TAB]
Patterns:
analyze_answers                 analyze_paper_simple
analyze_bill                    analyze_patent
analyze_bill_short              analyze_personality
analyze_candidates              analyze_presentation
analyze_cfp_submission          analyze_product_feedback
analyze_claims                  analyze_proposition
analyze_comments                analyze_prose
analyze_debate                  analyze_prose_json
analyze_discord_structure       analyze_prose_pinker
analyze_email_headers           analyze_risk
analyze_incident                analyze_sales_call
analyze_interviewer_techniques  analyze_spiritual_text
analyze_logs                    analyze_tech_impact
analyze_malware                 analyze_terraform_plan
analyze_military_strategy       analyze_threat_report
analyze_mistakes                analyze_threat_report_cmds
analyze_paper                   analyze_threat_report_trends

[ksylvan]

Hitting TAB after --listpatterns does nothing as designed.

What you want is to hit the TAB after providing a partial response to the -p or --patern flags.

Does that answer your question @svonjoi ?

[svonjoi]

apologies i made a mistake in the description. and i think this no longer bug request but feature request.

i meant the description of pattern and strategies, using fabric -p [TAB] and fabric --strategy [Tab], pulling description from the json

[svonjoi]

example multicolumn completion using zsh

and using fzf-tab zsh plugin we could fuzzy search through the descriptions like this

[svonjoi]

for the strategies is easy cuz u have descriptions in a command fabric --liststrategies

but in case of patterns, u have multiple sources of truth like:
https://github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/main/scripts/pattern_descriptions/pattern_descriptions.json
https://github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/main/data/patterns/pattern_explanations.md

maybe add cli argument around the json?

fabric --listpatterns shows only pattern names no desc