Completions for go-task

[jamescrosswell]

In module 3 (setting up a kind cluster) there's a bit of a detour on how to set up completions for go-task.

The taskfile.dev website suggests installing completions by running: eval "$(task --completion <shell>)". However initially when I tried that in the devbox shell I got the error: unknown flag: --completion.

I took a look at task --help and, indeed, there's no such flag.

After running devbox update go-task to update to the latest version of task (currently 3.43.2) everything worked fine... and I found I could set this up automatically by tweaking the devbox.json file like so:

  "shell": {
    "init_hook": [
      "export GOBIN=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/bin",
      "export PATH=$GOBIN:$PATH",
-      "go install sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]"
+      "go install sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]",
+      "eval \"$(task --completion zsh)\""
    ],
    "scripts": {
      "test": ["echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"]
    }
  }

Since I'm new to devbox and go-task, a little bit of head scratching was required to get to that point. Possibly worth making a commit to bump to the latest version of go-task (assuming this wouldn't break anything else in the tutorial) to make it easier for other folks when they're getting started here?

[damitti444]

I was still getting the following output after devbox shell

Starting a devbox shell...
/dev/fd/13:18: command not found: compdef
(eval):2: command not found: compdef

Therefore also needed to add the following to my ~/.zshrc on my system as stated in the devbox documentation on completions to get working completions at all for devbox and go-task

autoload -U compinit; compinit

[sidpalas]

Possibly worth making a commit to bump to the latest version of go-task (assuming this wouldn't break anything else in the tutorial) to make it easier for other folks when they're getting started here?

Want to put up a PR with this?