completions: only complete --options when a leading - has been entered
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changelog.d/(if the patch affects the end users)Summary of changes
pipx uses argcomplete for generating shell completions. By default, argcomplete shows
--optioncompletions even if no leading-has been entered.I consider this unusual and it doesn't look cleanly. Other autocompletion engines I know behave differently.
Therefore, I propose to set the
always_complete_options=Falseparameter, which shows--optionsonly when a leading-has already been entered.Feel free to reject if you like the current behavior more, but I thought I will propose the change since the configuration parameter might have been unknown.
Test plan
Before, subcommands and options are intermixed:
After this change, it is more clean and conforms to the usual behavior:
