interactive mode?

[sodiumjoe]

I made a way worse version of this in pure javascript. tbh it's kind of terrible, but i still use it for the interactive mode with autocompletion, which is buggy, but is still a really nice way to interact with data. I would love to switch to rq, but would really miss interactive mode.

It's not a trivial feature request by any means, but if you play with lobar a little bit, you might see the value of adding it.

[dflemstr]

Hm, it's really tricky to build a nice interactive program. I use a lot of shell features when entering bash commands such as history search, interpolating environment variables, using the built in selection and copy paste (try Ctrl-Space in bash and move your arrow keys!). The readline library gives you some of that but not everything.

An alternative would maybe be to offer bash completion (for rq queries), it would give the same effect perhaps?

[sodiumjoe]

completion would definitely be nice, but the experience of being able to see the live output of your query is hard to describe

I do recognize that this would balloon the scope of this project significantly, so I would understand if you decide not to, but wanted to at least make the suggestion.

I'm not familiar with the project organization, but if rq functionality was available as a library, I might try to work on an interactive program that does this at some point (after i've learned a lot more rust)