I have requests from one of my consulting clients to add support for auto-completing target names when typing commands like cmake --build . --target <TAB>. I’ve often wanted something similar myself. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I’m wondering if we can use the most recent replies of the CMake file API to provide the details for this to work. Not sure yet quite how to hook it all up, given that the only things you can rely on being installed are CMake and bash, so no JSON-processing tools, but maybe CMake’s own JSON processing would be good enough. In theory, the bash completion could run CMake scripts to provide the results, so I think there’s potentially a viable path, although performance may be something to keep a close eye on.
Before I go spending on any time on this, I wanted to ask if anyone has any thoughts or objections to such an approach? It would have to rely on something having made a file API query in an earlier CMake run to work, but that seems like a reasonable minimum requirement for such functionality to work.