Hilbish/docs/api/hilbish/hilbish.completions.md

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title: Interface hilbish.completions
description: tab completions
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## Introduction
The completions interface deals with tab completions.

## Functions
### call(name, query, ctx, fields) -> completionGroups (table), prefix (string)
Calls a completer function. This is mainly used to call
a command completer, which will have a `name` in the form
of `command.name`, example: `command.git`.
You can check `doc completions` for info on the `completionGroups` return value.

### handler(line, pos)
The handler function is the callback for tab completion in Hilbish.
You can check the completions doc for more info.

### bins(query, ctx, fields) -> entries (table), prefix (string)
Returns binary/executale completion candidates based on the provided query.

### files(query, ctx, fields) -> entries (table), prefix (string)
Returns file completion candidates based on the provided query.