Bash IDE sourcing suggestions

[andreicaba]

What is the problem this feature will solve?

Finding the needed bash source library files a lot easier.
We were writing a library of bash scripts for IoT management & etc. After some while, we got lots of libraries and lots of scripts. As some scripts got bigger, it started to become necessary to have some tools for easier sourcing the libraries inside the scripts.
So far, we were double checking with recursive awk, grep, and so on - but sometimes it becomes a little arduous to do so, so a tool that would suggest the needed sources list - if a library dir (or a set of library directories) is given.
We soon realized that a language server might do the job a lot better & easier, perhaps :)
So... it's a job where Bash IDE might help a lot :)

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

Maybe one of the best ways to implement this would be suggestions immediately after writing "source ". This way you don't have to advertise too much that you have the new feature (the user will see it automatically) and it will be instantly extraordinarily beneficial to the user :) . Eventually, at most, a suggestion to autocomplete the next lines with all the "source [relative path of the file]" right away :) ...
I hope it wouldn't be much trouble - but I believe it would benefit Bash IDE users greatly :)

What alternatives have you considered?

various custom bash instructions, like awk, grep, Perl, other regex tools, etc :)

[skovhus]

I’ve been thinking about this feature as well! Happy that you validate the relevance. It shouldn’t be too hard to implement.

a suggestion to autocomplete the next lines with all the "source [relative path of the file]" right away :) ...

I’m curious what you mean here. So if a symbol is not defined in the current file we could suggest to source a file that contains that symbol? Or?

[andreicaba]

That is exactly what I was suggesting :) If a symbol is not defined in the current file, suggest to source a file that defines that symbol 👍
You think it might be too hard?... I think that a language server can properly organise symbols and find the missing ones :)

[skovhus]

You think it might be too hard?... I think that a language server can properly organise symbols and find the missing ones :)

Shouldn’t be too hard, just additional work. Contributions are naturally more than welcome. ;)

I made a draft of the first version returning suggestions after a source or dot command. Works pretty nicely, but we would need to support different root paths. Currently we default to the workspace. But some users might run their script from sub folders. So either we make it configurable or try to infer it based on other source statements in the same script.