Feature request: Option to not list argument aliases in the completion about argcomplete HOT 5 OPEN

Yes, should be pretty easy. Just make a new kwarg for argcomplete.autocomplete() and only add the first item instead of the whole list in https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete/blob/master/argcomplete/__init__.py#L219

                completions += [option for option in action.option_strings if option.startswith(cword_prefix)]

and a test of course.

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Great, thanks for the pointer! The line you pointed to works fine for options, but not when there are subcommands with aliases. Looks like Line 217 above is used for this. However, parser._actions in that line (coming from here) is a flattened list of subcommands and subcommand aliases. Any hints on how to get a non-flattened list of this sort?

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Not sure, you may have to add some more logic to my_argparse so it collects subcommand names and aliases separately.

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About subcommands, does argcomplete support argparse subcommands?

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It does. Please open a new issue if you have problems that are not related to this feature request.

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