[Gnu-arch-users] Script for extending tla

[Aaron Bentley]

Hi all,

A while back, there was a suggestion that we make arch extendable with
shell scripts.  I thought the idea was neat, but Tom was having nothing
of it.  He felt that we could just write wrappers around tla to achive
the same effect.

Well, I think he was right.  Here's a stupid-simple arch wrapper I
wrote, which I have named, with all due humility, Aaron Bentley's Arch. 
You can use it to add new commands, add your favourite options to
existing commands, or disable existing commands.
 
The main script just looks for files in ~/.aba/commands, and executes
them if they exist.  Otherwise, it executes tla.

Command scripts can take either "exec" as $1, which runs the command, or
"desc" which outputs a description in the format used by "tla help"

Attached are
aba: The main script
diff: a shortcut for "tla changes --diff"
help: an override for "tla help" that appends the list of extensions to
the end of normal help output
what-changed: notifies the user to use "changes" instead

Comments and suggestions are most welcome.  In particular, I'd like to
provide support for shell completion, but I don't know how to go about
that.

Aaron 

-- 
Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
PanoMetrics, Inc.

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