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authorTodd Leonhardt <todd.leonhardt@gmail.com>2020-02-13 22:34:22 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-02-13 22:34:22 -0500
commit013b9e0a2c75e17f8aa0e0f7cbe50d84d2f657d8 (patch)
treee3cc4c27ed21a2e1d01caae0bda4ea51c44e59f6 /cmd2/argparse_completer.py
parentad0e2ae0d0d426fe08353fd82d1f9ff051be9108 (diff)
parent7fe5cf7c1ab7d7a68991d1aeebaa338f7c5d2fd0 (diff)
downloadcmd2-git-013b9e0a2c75e17f8aa0e0f7cbe50d84d2f657d8.tar.gz
Merge pull request #887 from python-cmd2/completion_docs
Completion docs
Diffstat (limited to 'cmd2/argparse_completer.py')
-rw-r--r--cmd2/argparse_completer.py6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cmd2/argparse_completer.py b/cmd2/argparse_completer.py
index 6513fe13..185e01a2 100644
--- a/cmd2/argparse_completer.py
+++ b/cmd2/argparse_completer.py
@@ -444,7 +444,9 @@ class AutoCompleter:
completions.sort(key=self._cmd2_app.default_sort_key)
self._cmd2_app.matches_sorted = True
- token_width = ansi.style_aware_wcswidth(action.dest)
+ # If a metavar was defined, use that instead of the dest field
+ destination = action.metavar if action.metavar else action.dest
+ token_width = ansi.style_aware_wcswidth(destination)
completions_with_desc = []
for item in completions:
@@ -463,7 +465,7 @@ class AutoCompleter:
desc_header = getattr(action, ATTR_DESCRIPTIVE_COMPLETION_HEADER, None)
if desc_header is None:
desc_header = DEFAULT_DESCRIPTIVE_HEADER
- header = '\n{: <{token_width}}{}'.format(action.dest.upper(), desc_header, token_width=token_width + 2)
+ header = '\n{: <{token_width}}{}'.format(destination.upper(), desc_header, token_width=token_width + 2)
self._cmd2_app.completion_header = header
self._cmd2_app.display_matches = completions_with_desc