From 29e9ff750be077804284bd939deea29942379c8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:33:02 -0500
Subject: maybe working good enough to leave it alone for a while

---
 complete.go | 40 +++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/complete.go b/complete.go
index a1968bf..6189b1c 100644
--- a/complete.go
+++ b/complete.go
@@ -80,51 +80,33 @@ func (args) Examples() string {
 	return out
 }
 
-func (args) Match() bool {
-	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("cache") {
-		matches, _ := matchCacheFiles()
-		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, "%s", matches)
-		return true
-	}
-
-	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("mode.--config") {
-		matches, _ := matchModeDirs()
-		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, "%s", matches)
-		return true
-	}
-
-	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("mode") {
-		matches := []string{"jwc", "false"}
-		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, "%s", " "+strings.Join(matches, " "))
-		return true
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
 // sends the strings to bash or zsh that will be your options
 func (a args) DoAutoComplete() error {
 	var err error
 	me.pp, err = arg.ParseFlagsArgv(&argv)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stddbg, "go-args parseFlagsArgv(%v) finished autocomplete\n", err)
-		// counter intuitive. return nil on err for now
-		return nil
 	}
+	return err
+}
+
+func (args) Match() bool {
 	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("cache") {
 		matches, _ := matchCacheFiles()
 		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, "%s", matches)
-		return nil
+		return true
 	}
+
 	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("mode.--config") {
 		matches, _ := matchModeDirs()
 		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, "%s", matches)
-		return nil
+		return true
 	}
+
 	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("mode") {
-		err = me.pp.WriteHelpForAutocomplete("", "mode")
 		matches := []string{"jwc", "false"}
 		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, "%s", " "+strings.Join(matches, " "))
-		return nil
+		return true
 	}
 	if argvpb.PB.GetCmd() == "" {
 		// these are base autocomplete strings
@@ -132,9 +114,9 @@ func (a args) DoAutoComplete() error {
 		matches = append(matches, "show", "add", "fixer", "dev", "verify", "mode", "gui", "whatchanged")
 		matches = append(matches, "--version", "--force", "--all", "--verbose", "--help")
 		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, "%s", strings.Join(matches, " "))
-		return nil
+		return true
 	}
-	return err
+	return false
 }
 
 func matchModeDirs() (string, error) {
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