0.8.3 (April 09, 2018)

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed help command not calling functions for help topics
  • Fixed not being able to use quoted paths when redirecting with < and >

• Enhancements

  • Tab completion has been overhauled and now supports completion of strings with quotes and spaces.
  • Tab completion will automatically add an opening quote if a string with a space is completed.
  • Added delimiter_complete function for tab completing delimited strings
  • Added more control over tab completion behavior including the following flags. The use of these flags is documented in cmd2.py
    • allow_appended_space
    • allow_closing_quote
  • Due to the tab completion changes, non-Windows platforms now depend on wcwidth.
  • An alias name can now match a command name.
  • An alias can now resolve to another alias.

• Attribute Changes (Breaks backward compatibility)

  • exclude_from_help is now called hidden_commands since these commands are hidden from things other than help, including tab completion
    • This list also no longer takes the function names of commands (do_history), but instead uses the command names themselves (history)
  • excludeFromHistory is now called exclude_from_history
  • cmd_with_subs_completer() no longer takes an argument called base. Adding tab completion to subcommands has been simplified to declaring it in the
    subcommand parser's default settings. This easily allows arbitrary completers like path_complete to be used.
    See subcommands.py for an example of how to use
    tab completion in subcommands. In addition, the docstring for cmd_with_subs_completer() offers more details.