From 28839452b290b83d409193044c5737a92cc1ec3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:13:45 -0500
Subject: hmm

---
 Makefile                  |  6 +++---
 dryrun.go                 |  2 +-
 structs.go                | 18 +++++++++---------
 theMagicOfAutocomplete.go |  3 ++-
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2f87593..a91c8be 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-all: auto.pb.go goimports vet
+all: proto vet
 	@echo This GO code passes the compile checks
 
-auto.pb.go: auto.proto
-	make generate
+proto:
+	autogenpb --proto auto.proto
 
 generate: clean
 	go mod init
diff --git a/dryrun.go b/dryrun.go
index e8e36bd..037f0a9 100644
--- a/dryrun.go
+++ b/dryrun.go
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package prep
 
-// initializes logging and command line options
+// think about using something like this
 
 func DryRun() bool {
 	return false
diff --git a/structs.go b/structs.go
index 31b7cc4..2594094 100644
--- a/structs.go
+++ b/structs.go
@@ -18,21 +18,26 @@ type ArgsBash struct {
 	Bash bool `arg:"--bash"                               help:"generate bash completion"`
 }
 
+// returns the name of the executable registered for shell autocomplete
+func AppName() string {
+	return me.ARGNAME
+}
+
 // try this struct out (?)
 var me *AutoArgs
 
 // this is a work in progress
 type AutoArgs struct {
-	id        int                     // should be unique
-	hidden    bool                    // don't update the toolkits when it's hidden
-	Auto      func([]string)          // the function for shell autocomplete
+	id int // should be unique
+	// hidden    bool                    // don't update the toolkits when it's hidden
+	Auto func([]string) // the function for shell autocomplete
 	examples  func() string           // some examples
 	appExit   func()                  // app Exit()
 	buildtime func() (string, string) // some examples
-	pp        *arg.Parser             // for parsing the command line args.  Yay to alexf lint!
 	autoFunc  func(*Auto)             // also a function for autocomplete
 	guiFunc   func() error            // enables Gui functions
 	err       error                   // store any errors from argv
+	pp        *arg.Parser             // for parsing the command line args.  Yay to alexf lint!
 	pb        *Auto
 
 	ARGNAME   string // a good way to track the name of the binary ?
@@ -53,8 +58,3 @@ func GetLast(cur string, argv []string) string {
 	}
 	return ""
 }
-
-// returns the name of the executable registered for shell autocomplete
-func AppName() string {
-	return me.ARGNAME
-}
diff --git a/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go b/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
index 7fddb00..ae0888d 100644
--- a/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
+++ b/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ import (
 	timestamppb "google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/timestamppb"
 )
 
-// TODO: rename 'all' to 'pb' and 'pb' to 'pbnew' or 'pbcur'
 func Autocomplete(dest any) *Auto {
 	me = new(AutoArgs) // todo: redo this
 	findAppInfo(dest)  // parses back to main() for argv info
 
+	// todo: figure this out
 	if me.guiFunc != nil {
 		// register gui args
 		me.guiFunc()
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ func Autocomplete(dest any) *Auto {
 	if err != nil {
 		// there is no history.
 		// todo: initialize the history file
+		// todo: check if this is automatically done already
 	}
 
 	// set the start time of the binary
-- 
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