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| -rw-r--r-- | cmd2/cmd2.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cmd2/cmd2.py b/cmd2/cmd2.py index 5579be4b..9f304537 100644 --- a/cmd2/cmd2.py +++ b/cmd2/cmd2.py @@ -2828,7 +2828,11 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd): # Create a parser with a value field based on this settable settable_parser = DEFAULT_ARGUMENT_PARSER(parents=[Cmd.set_parser_parent]) - settable_parser.add_argument('value', help=settable.description, + + # Settables that populate choices have the values of those choices overwrite the arg name + # in help text and this shows in tab-completion hints. Set metavar to avoid this. + arg_name = 'value' + settable_parser.add_argument(arg_name, metavar=arg_name, help=settable.description, choices=settable.choices, choices_function=settable.choices_function, choices_method=settable.choices_method, |