From 5d2788edbc203fdb3b99d073e507962cb0f0e6ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:11:53 -0500
Subject: killed erronous output on error

---
 theMagicOfAutocomplete.go | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go b/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
index eadffb6..1eeedd1 100644
--- a/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
+++ b/theMagicOfAutocomplete.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package prep
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"go.wit.com/dev/alexflint/arg"
@@ -120,14 +121,22 @@ func Autocomplete(dest any) *Auto {
 		if s == "--autodebug" {
 			continue
 		}
+		if strings.TrimSpace(s) == "" {
+			// skip anything blank
+			continue
+		}
 		flags = append(flags, s)
 	}
 
 	// use go-args to parse the structs so we can use them here
 	myAuto.pp, err = arg.ParseFlags(flags, dest)
-	if err != nil {
-		// users has command line arguments that won't parse with go-args
-		pb.Debugf("DEBUG: Parse error: %v flags(%v)", err, flags)
+	if len(flags) == 0 {
+		// error is normal if there are no command line args
+	} else {
+		if err != nil {
+			// users has command line arguments that won't parse with go-args
+			pb.Debugf("DEBUG: Parse error: %v flags%v", err, flags)
+		}
 	}
 
 	if myAuto.pp == nil {
-- 
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