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Ehsan-hash · 2026-10-16T15:17:02Z

Short options now show their flag's existing help text in completion menus, just like long options. For flag "-v --verbose" help="Verbose output", completing -v previously returned an empty description; it now returns Verbose output.

Short spellings resolve through the parser's flag map, so an inherited and local flag that share -q cannot give it the wrong description. The change preserves hidden aliases, prefix filtering, sorting and name-based deduplication. Bash continues to receive values only. Regressions exercise the actual CLI, including described aliases, hidden flags, flags without help and colliding short spellings.

Validation: 66 completion tests, formatting and CLI/tests Clippy pass. Original and patched binaries were compared across all five CLI output formats and through the generated Zsh handler. The short-spelling collision was reproduced on the first submitted version and corrected. The shell integration harness has the same 31 pass / 3 fail result on the original and final binaries: two failures require a newer Bash than macOS's Bash 3, and the existing generic Zsh interactive test times out. Missing Fish, PowerShell, Nu and bash-completion coverage was not treated as executed shell coverage. Independent read-only review covers the complete updated candidate.

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- Flag suggestions in fish shell completion now show help text for short aliases, matching their long aliases. Short flags without help remain undescribed, and hidden flags are omitted. When a short flag is shared across the root command and a subcommand, suggestions now reflect the correct flag ownership and help text while preserving applicable value completions.

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Short-flag completion now resolves each unique short name to its owning flag. It omits hidden owners and aliases, and includes the owner’s help text in the completion candidate. Tests cover hidden flags, missing help text, and duplicate short-flag ownership across root and subcommand scopes.

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Short flag help and completion output `cli/src/cli/complete_word.rs`, `cli/tests/complete_word.rs`	Short-flag completion resolves each unique short name to its owner, omits hidden owners and aliases, and uses the owner’s help text. Tests check completion descriptions and duplicate short-flag ownership across root and subcommand scopes.

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Short flag completions now show their flag’s help text.

Short flag suggestions show their flag's help text.

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chatgpt-codex-connector · 2026-10-16T15:20:43Z

                f.short
                    .iter()
                    .filter(|short| !f.hidden_short_aliases.contains(short))
+                    .map(|short| (*short, f.help.clone().unwrap_or_default()))


Resolve short help through the short-key owner

flags.values() still includes a flag under its long key when merge_subcommand_flags in lib/src/parse.rs assigns its colliding short key to another flag, so attaching help before unique_by makes lexicographic map order choose the description. For example, with an inherited global -q --zeta and a local -q --alpha, parsing keeps the global as the -q owner, but --alpha sorts first and completion now labels -q with the local flag's help; resolve the short spelling through its actual map entry before selecting the help text.

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Ehsan-hash · 2026-10-16T15:30:24Z

Fixed the short-key ownership finding in 1172b9e. Completion now gets visibility and help from the same short-key owner used by parsing. The regression reproduces the incorrect local description on the first submitted head and verifies the inherited global description and value completion after the repair. All 66 completion tests, formatting, affected Clippy and fresh independent review pass; the broader shell harness retains only the same three original-binary failures disclosed above.

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https://entire.io/gh/jdx/usage/trails/98  ### 🐛 Bug Fixes - **(complete)** read .<script>.usage.kdl sidecar when completing scripts by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1558](#1558) - **(complete)** show help for short flag completions by [@Ehsan-hash](https://github.com/Ehsan-hash) in [#1561](#1561) ### 🛡️ Security - replace prettier with oxfmt by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1560](#1560) ### 🔍 Other Changes - **(release)** shorten minimum release age to 2 days by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [52b1b78](52b1b78) - pin perf-runner image by tag and stop automerging it by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in [#1562](#1562) ### New Contributors - @Ehsan-hash made their first contribution in [#1561](#1561)

Ehsan-hash · 2026-10-22T00:01:17Z

Thanks for merging this, @jdx!

Ehsan-hash added 2 commits October 16, 2026 08:16

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test(complete): cover inherited short flag ownership

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