autocompletion

[garin-marlow]

A nice to have feature would be built-in autocompletion when pressing TAB.

[philj404]

I can see where autocomplete would be useful.

But it makes the parser less simple (and so harder to understand and maintain). For example we would need to specify/support autocomplete behavior with ambiguous commands. Do we walk through a list of "STOP", "SORT", "START" etc. when someone types S, then TAB?

Workaround: Sometimes there are only one or two commands that are used much. For example a robot may mostly use "FORWARD 100" and "STOP". Those particular commands could get their own aliases, named "F" and "S".

This is NOT as useful as a real autocomplete, but may give you 90% of what you want.