autocomplete for builtins

[adrian-gierakowski]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Would be great to get autocomplete when typing builtins. like provided by nil

[inclyc]

Would be great to get autocomplete when typing builtins

I would like to design a system that incrementally evaluate your code on-the-fly, lazily. Not only for builtins. I think in this way nixd builtins documentation will come from real nix evaluator, not be hard-coded in the source code (like nil). This is in design review, do you have some suggestions?

[adrian-gierakowski]

@inclyc this sounds great! However I guess that will take longer to implement. In the meantime it would be great to have hardcoded completions to keep users from going back to nil 😄

[inclyc]

In the meantime it would be great to have hardcoded completions to keep users from going back to nil

I think you can expect a quick implementation as builtins will be relatively trivial, not hardcoded but a trivial version of the large-scale eval system.

[inclyc]

Ping for this issue. Currently even lib.* completion is landed, but NOT builtins?

[adrian-gierakowski]

Seems like perfect being the enemy of the good kind of situation.

[inclyc]

Ping again, I almost forget this...