cmd2-abbrev

Description

Plugin for cmd2 to support previously deprecated abbreviation behavior.

Adds a setting abbrev which allows users to control whether commands can be abbreviated. If an application has a speak command:

(Cmd) speak hello
hello

then any unique prefix of any command will run the command:

(Cmd) set abbrev True
abbrev - was: False
now: True
(Cmd) sp hello
hello

Non-unique abbreviations generate a syntax error:

(Cmd) s hello
*** Unknown syntax: s hello
(Cmd) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
alias  help     load  pyscript  set    shortcuts  unalias
edit   history  py    quit      shell  speak

Installation

System requirements: works anywhere cmd2 works (Windows, Linux, MacOS). Requires cmd2 version 0.9.12 or higher.

Install using pip:

$ pip install cmd2-abbrev

Add to your cmd2 application by mixing in the AbbrevMixin class:

import cmd2
import cmd2_abbrev

class AbbrevExample(cmd2_abbrev.AbbrevMixin, cmd2.Cmd):
    """A cmd2 program to demonstrate the use of the cmd2_abbrev plugin"""
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

You must mix in AbbrevMixin before cmd2.Cmd or it won't work properly.