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Consistent @command args... syntax for all special character strings #65
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I like the
@news pkg {optional_search}syntax. It does make me wonder if, rather than curly quotes with{dplyr}, we ought to support@pkg dplyr. This would align with the tidy style convention of no special formatting for package names, bring this syntax a little closer to other btw shorthands, and bring the syntax a little closer to e.g. Positron Assistant participants. (This argument could also go for@help topicinstead of?topic, etc, so that folks would only need to remember the @ keyword to use shorthands with btw. Maybe this should be spun off into a more general issue.)
Originally posted by @simonpcouch in #64 (review)
btw("{dplyr}") # now
btw("@pkg dplyr") # and also
btw("?dplyr::across") # now
btw("@help dplyr across") # and also
btw("@help dplyr::across") # also also
# etc...
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[-]Consistent `@command args` syntax for all special character strings[/-][+]Consistent `@command args...` syntax for all special character strings[/+]gadenbuie commentedon Oct 22, 2025
Also
btw("@README.md")orbtw("@R/source-file.R")to inline file contents into the chat context. Markdown files would be inlined without decoration, other files would be wrapped in code blocksgadenbuie commentedon Oct 22, 2025
Oops, this is already supported with
btw("./README.md")