feat(complete): add presentation labels to candidates

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Medium Risk
Changes the completion wire format for PowerShell and zsh presentation, plus Candidate’s public shape. Wrong field order or incomplete struct literals would show or insert the wrong text, but insertion values themselves are unchanged.

Overview
Completion candidates can now carry a presentation-only display label, so zsh and PowerShell can show a richer name while still inserting value. Completers chain .displayed(label) on Candidate; bash, fish, and nu keep showing the insertion value.

render now emits a third field for PowerShell (value, description, display) and uses display as zsh’s first column. The generated PowerShell script splits on three tabs and passes display into CompletionResult.

Duplicate values from static tables and runtime overlays merge instead of dropping metadata: sort_and_dedup_candidates keeps a display or description if either copy has one.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for separate display labels in command-line completions, allowing suggestions to show descriptive text while inserting the appropriate value.
  • Improved PowerShell completion output with distinct values, descriptions, and display text.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved display labels and descriptions when duplicate completion values are merged across completion flows.

• Documentation

  • Documented how custom completion display labels work across supported shells.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Completion candidates now support an optional presentation label separate from the inserted value. Deduplication preserves missing display and description metadata. PowerShell emits and parses three fields, while other shells retain value-based display behavior.

Changes

Candidate display handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Candidate display contract argv/src/spec.rs, argv/src/complete.rs	Candidate adds an optional display field and the displayed builder method. Built-in candidates initialize display metadata, and choice_values converts byte values into ValueEnum instances.
Metadata-preserving completion flow argv/src/complete.rs	Completion paths merge missing display and description metadata from duplicate candidates. Zsh and PowerShell render separate display text. Tests verify labeled ruby overlays and shell-specific output.
PowerShell completion parsing argv/src/script.rs, docs/rust/completions.md	PowerShell parsing accepts value, description, and an optional display field. Documentation defines shell-specific presentation behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b1bdc

The change adds presentation-only labels to completion candidates while preserving inserted values. A bounded risk remains that duplicate static candidates could lose their display label and show less-helpful text, so merge is appropriate with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CompletionSource
  participant CandidateDeduplicator
  participant ZshRenderer
  participant PowerShellRenderer
  CompletionSource->>CandidateDeduplicator: duplicate candidates with metadata
  CandidateDeduplicator->>CandidateDeduplicator: merge missing display and description
  CandidateDeduplicator->>ZshRenderer: display, description, insertion value
  CandidateDeduplicator->>PowerShellRenderer: value, description, display

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A rabbit labels hops with care,
While inserted values stay aware.
Duplicate paths now share their lore,
Three fields pass through PowerShell’s door.
Zsh shows labels beside the score.

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Inline comments:
In `@argv/src/spec.rs`:
- Around line 259-266: Update value-based candidate deduplication in
complete_with and complete_named_with to retain a candidate with Some(display)
when duplicates share the same value, rather than allowing the unlabeled
candidate to win derived ordering. Add regression coverage for both completion
paths, including duplicate values with differing display labels.

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- Line 996: Update candidates_inner to use sort_and_dedup_candidates for
deduplication instead of out.dedup_by(...), preserving metadata such as display
labels on duplicate candidates. Keep the existing candidate ordering and
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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	▁▁▁▁▁▁▁█████████	290,125,127 → 290,148,844	+0.01%	26.25 → 26.69ms	+1.71%
startup	▅▅▅▅▁▁▁▅▅▅▅█▄███	876,212 → 876,151	-0.01%	0.91 → 0.92ms	+1.09%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

_{Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run.}

_{Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes.}

Shadow comparison

Parsing mise use -g node@20 against a shadow of mise's committed spec.
Reported, not gated: the shadow grows as the derive learns to express more, so
what to watch is the ratio rather than either column.

framework	instructions, cold parse	vs usage
usage	8345	—
argh	6307	0.8x
clap	6315224	756x
bpaf	21909147	2625x

                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      421       428       431       440  ns
argh: argv -> struct                          268       272       277       286  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct         512313    513298    516088    523419  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      1438244   1438244   1489212   1592888  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             429 ns      0.43 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             532456 ns    532.46 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              26134 ns     26.13 µs
clap: build tree only                          336888 ns    336.89 µs

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