Refine and Enhance TUI Functionality about qq HOT 4 OPEN

🥳 Think my advice would be to first focus on really nice and fancy completion, that is what i use all the time with fq. sub-repl i use a tiny bit, slurp/spew not at all. "realtime" syntax checking and highlighting would be really nice but i haven't look into it, for fq it would probably also involve quite a lot of work on the readline implementation that i use.

btw if you write lots of jq i can recommend https://github.com/wader/jq-lsp

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Hey, i can list some fancy things https://github.com/wader/fq supports that might be interesting idea:

• Auto completion of index, function, bindings and keywords. It's also done via eval so you can "complete" a query, ex {abc:123} | .a<tab> works, might seem supercomplex but it's a bit of a trick: it only works if the query to the left of the cursor is valid query (with some extra heuristics for indexing). Also bindings don't work well as they are generally in some scope, mostly useful for globals.
• Supports sub-REPL:s via ... | repl
• inputs in the REPL "behaves" the same as the CLI, ex:

  $ fq -i '1,2'
  number, ...[0:3][]> .*2
  2
  4
  number, ...[0:2][]> .*2 | repl
  > number, ...[0:2][]> .*2
  4
  8
  > number, ...[0:2][]> ^D
  number, ...[0:2][]> ^D
  $

• Has a paste function

  null> paste | repl
  abc
  <ctrl-d>
  > string> .
  "abc\n"

• Has a slurp/spew function but i have to say i have nearly never used them, maybe if one could come up with some neater syntax that works well with jq.

   null> 1,2,3 | slurp("hello")
   null> $hello
   [
     1,
     2,
     3
   ]
   null> spew("hello")
   1
   2
   3
  

Things i would like to have:

• Multi-line edit of query
• Syntax highlight and checking
• Online documentation (at completion?)

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Thanks a lot for the advice and detailing some of the functionality/many features of fq (big fan btw!), these suggestions would definitely be a major improvement and I look forward to taking a crack at some of them 👍

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Sorry, I definitely used the word "realtime" a bit too liberally in the readme. Very cool, will take a look and see if I can't hack something together w/ any of this when I have time if no one decides they want to work on abeforehand. If anyone wants to work on any component of the above mentioned, I am not too opinionated on implementation as long as it's approximates some of the above improvements @wader mentioned or the post @ here.#6 or any user interface improvements :)

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