fix(bash): preserve colon-prefixed completion words

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Summary

• pass Bash's Readline word and COMP_WORDBREAKS through the hidden completion request
• report the colon prefix Readline preserves and trim it from full completion candidates
• share the completion request parser with generated derive code so both completion paths use the same protocol
• add protocol and real-Bash regression coverage for namespaced task-style candidates

Fixes the completion behavior reported in jdx/mise#12970.

Testing

• cargo test -p usage-argv --features complete --test scripts
• cargo test -p usage-argv --features complete a_bash_request_reports_the_colon_prefix_readline_preserves
• cargo clippy -p usage-argv -p usage-derive -p usage-rs --all-features -- -D warnings

The broader usage-argv and usage-rs test runs each retain an unrelated failure reproducible on unmodified main: embedded::tests::automatic_help_and_failures_are_stderr_status_two and runtime_identity_drives_process_output, respectively.

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Scoped to Bash completion protocol and generated scripts; derive codegen is simplified to shared parsing with added regression tests.

Overview
Fixes Bash tab completion for colon-separated values (e.g. update:deps:no) where Readline only replaces the fragment after the last colon when : is in COMP_WORDBREAKS.

The hidden __complete_word__ protocol now accepts --bash-word and --bash-wordbreaks. render_request still emits normal candidates but, for Bash with colon word-breaking, adds a \x01prefix\t… line so the generated wrapper knows which prefix Readline keeps. The Bash completion script forwards Readline’s current word and word-breaks, strips that prefix from full candidates before they go into COMPREPLY, and leaves path completions unchanged.

usage-derive no longer duplicates request parsing: generated completion_request delegates to CompletionRequest::parse and uses render_request like the library path. Unit and real-Bash tests cover normal colons, escaped colons, cursor-on-colon, and consecutive colons.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved Bash completion for colon-separated values, including escaped and consecutive colons.
  • Prevented already-typed prefixes from being duplicated when inserting completion candidates.
  • Improved handling of Bash word boundaries so suggestions preserve surrounding command text.
  • Improved completion when the cursor is at the end of, within, or on a colon-separated word.
  • Ensured prefix handling respects Bash configurations where colons are not word-break characters.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for colon-containing, escaped-colon, consecutive-colon, and varied cursor-position scenarios.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The completion protocol now carries Bash Readline context. Runtime rendering emits preserved-prefix markers for colon-separated words. Generated completion functions use the shared parser and renderer. Bash scripts consume the markers and trim prefixes from candidates.

Changes

Bash colon-prefix completion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Request parsing and prefix rendering argv/src/complete.rs	CompletionRequest parses Bash word context. render_request emits markers for applicable colon prefixes. Tests cover cursor positions, escaped colons, consecutive colons, and word-break suppression.
Generated completion request integration derive/src/codegen.rs	Generated completion functions use CompletionRequest::parse and render_request for candidate and default response paths.
Bash marker handling and integration validation argv/src/script.rs, cli/assets/completions/usage.bash, argv/tests/scripts.rs	The Bash scripts pass Readline context, capture prefix markers, and remove preserved prefixes from candidates. Integration tests cover standard, escaped, and consecutive-colon completion.

Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer this Bash completion fix because it addresses a low-severity, narrowly scoped issue with colon-prefixed words.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2bc9d

Bash completion can insert an incorrect value when completing an escaped trailing colon, and the regression coverage does not verify the full command-line forwarding required by this behavior. Resolve these issues before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BashReadline
  participant GeneratedCompletion
  participant CompletionRequest
  participant render_request
  BashReadline->>GeneratedCompletion: pass Bash word and word breaks
  GeneratedCompletion->>CompletionRequest: parse completion arguments
  CompletionRequest->>render_request: provide parsed request and completions
  render_request-->>GeneratedCompletion: return candidates and prefix marker
  GeneratedCompletion-->>BashReadline: trim preserved prefix from candidates

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In `@argv/src/complete.rs`:
- Line 928: Update the colon-boundary selection in render_request to identify
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- Line 935: Update the completion split/wrapper flow around the reversed
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than relying on the normalized prefix. Ensure the empty-fragment path and
candidate-prefix stripping retain the correct boundary so `ex update:\:` inserts
after `update:` without producing an extra colon, and add coverage beside the
consecutive-colon regression.

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- Line 353: Update the regression test’s Fixture::new stand-in to validate the
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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	▁▁▁▁███	388,338,825 → 388,291,912	-0.01%	65.58 → 65.60ms	+0.03%
startup	▁▁▁▁█▃▄	980,761 → 987,657	+0.70%	1.50 → 1.49ms	-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	stripped binary, bytes
usage	1345496
bpaf	2493216
clap	3101656

framework	instructions, cold parse	vs usage
usage	8374	—
clap	6314655	754x
bpaf	21909025	2616x

                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      763       765       767       771  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct        1228758   1232659   1241983   1258674  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      3443430   3443430   3460848   3498914  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             750 ns      0.75 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct            1263151 ns   1263.15 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              50211 ns     50.21 µs
clap: build tree only                          749554 ns    749.55 µs

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