Feature: complete also from scrollback buffer about autocomplete-all-the-things

[vifon]

Yes, it should be possible. I deliberately stop the search on top of the visible section but AFAIK it should work. I'll try to get around to it when I'll have some time.

[vifon]

I've got it working a bit but it's still not ready. Just wanted to let you know I'm still working on it. I'd like to refactor some stuff while doing it, because the refactoring is long overdue.

[blueyed]

Thanks!

I also wondered recently, if it might be possible to query even other urxvtc windows (when using daemon mode)? :)

[vifon]

I don't think so. I haven't seen any API for communication between the clients.

[kovetskiy]

We do something like query even other urxvtc using tmux sessions:
https://github.com/deadcrew/deadfiles/blob/master/bin/autocomplete-tmux

[vifon]

Neat! I even thought about using tmux for that. Still, I think it's not possible on just urxvtc.

[blueyed]

Very nice!

There is also https://github.com/wellle/tmux-complete.vim for completion in Vim, where the input is generated through https://github.com/wellle/tmux-complete.vim/blob/master/sh/tmuxcomplete.
I have created Zsh completion based on that (https://gist.github.com/blueyed/6856354).

I think it would be nice to combine input from urxvt and tmux for autocomplete-ALL-the-things.

(There is https://github.com/junegunn/fzf, which allows to provide a sink for all kinds of input, but the it requires to e.g. open a tmux pane or something similar to filter the list - therefore it does not work that well for input completion I'd say.)

I have recently looked a lot at urxvt's source (for blueyed/rxvt-unicode#1), and the server/client protocol is rather simple (but flexible): it just starts new clients basically currently (AFAIK).
I could imagine extending it to request and send the scrollback through it, possibly with instruction to filter it.

However, I am not using urxvtd myself currently, since I had it crashing one time to many in the early days of using urxvt.

[barlik]

Hi, any update on this?

[vifon]

It's still planned, I didn't got around to it yet though. Sorry for the delay!