No completion for positional argument with nargs="*" about argcomplete HOT 8 CLOSED

You probably should. I think this is a consequence of how I currently find the active action (the action that the parser was on when it finished or crashed). Since your argument has nargs="*", it accepts 0 words and the parser moves on to the next action. Instead of having just one active action, I should probably build a mapping of actions to words that those actions were activated on, and consider all the actions that were activated on the last word to be active (so, grab all of their completions).

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I think this will help: 938ec6a but this really needs more testing (particularly I need to write test cases). Let me know if it works for you.

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It does indeed. Thanks!

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Spoke a bit too soon. I get autocompletion for the first occurrence of the argument with nargs="*", but none thereafter for this argument.

In my testing using your commit, I also do not get completion on a second occurrence of an optional argument with nargs="+" with a ChoicesCompleter.

You might also want to consider optional arguments with nargs="+" in combination with a positional with nargs="*". In these cases, there are two ways to deal with the multiplicity:

$ command verb positional_A positional_B --optional option_A option_B

That is, to put the optional argument at the end, or using the pseudo argument "--":

$ command verb --optional option_A option_B -- positional_A positional_B

Thanks again for looking into this!

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Does this help? 0279e77 (it's in master)

(Regarding the second part, I get that for free by piggybacking on the parse process. All I need to do is make sure that I have all the actions which could have possibly eaten the next word on the command line.)

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That seems to have got it. Thanks!

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Cool, thanks for reporting. Gonna keep this open until I get around to adding tests for it.

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Works for aero too...

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