Interesting concept, just FYI, there’s a popular code grepping tool called Silver Searcher, and it also uses ag - consider just using august to avoid ambiguity/collisions.
Quickly creating or editing objects. The main target would be editor extensions, imagine a snippet that expands to an object on tab for instance
I was thinking about something kinda related this morning, how would you make a tab completion-like system for commands in gnome/xterm. Something like what vscode does with a drop down list. I was thinking it would be cool to be able to be mid command line, type a - and get a list of flags, -- and get the expanded options, (all of this likely exists already), but if I type ? the word is searched for in help/manpage for a related flag option
zsh has completion built in. There's zsh-autocomplete that's maybe closer to what you're thinking. I'm not aware of a term emu with special GUI for it beyond what your shell gives you.
I wanted to try using yamlpath (yaml-set in particular) to recreate the first example, even though the usage model doesn't quite match up. It's a bit tedious because I don't think you can do unrelated replacements in a single command:
$ <<<'{}' yaml-set -g ignored.hello -a world | yaml-set -g tabwidth -a 2 -F dquote | yaml-set -g trailingComma -a all | yaml-set -g singleQuote -a true -F dquote | yaml-set -g semi -a true -F dquote | yaml-set -g printwidth -a 120 -F dquote | yaml-get -p .
Trying to make it neater with Zsh and (forbidden) use of eval:
$ reps=(ignored.hello world tabwidth 2 trailingComma all singleQuote true semi true printwidth 120) cmd=()
$ for k v ( ${(kv)reps} ) cmd+=(yaml-set -g $k -a $v -F dquote \|)
$ <<<'{}' eval $cmd yaml-get -p .
EDIT: Ugh I can't figure out how to properly write the less than sign in lemmy comments.