Better demo screencast

[Vitaly Potyarkin]

The screencast in the README was done in a hurry after next to no planning and probably fails to convey some of the important features of bash-complete-partial-path.

This issue is a place to discuss, plan and submit a better screencast.

Current screencast outline

https://asciinema.org/a/0zhzOYbkF22pWLmbx1RHCYyqQ

• Path completion:
  • for files
  • for directories (with cd)
• Tilde expansion:
  • Simple (~)
  • Advanced (~1 with pushd)
• Escaping special characters in file path
  • A directory name with spaces
• Completion of special characters with opened quotes:
  • '
  • "

Possible enhancements

• Resolving ambiguity in the middle of path

  All the samples in current screencast differ only in the last element of the path. Perhaps a better example would be the one with ambiguity in the middle, like /u/s/c -> /usr/share/cygwin, /usr/ssl/cert.pem, /usr/ssl/certs

• Side-by-side comparison with traditional completion

  It would be good to have an example that shows how many keystrokes can be saved with the enhanced path completion, e.g. with something like /usr/share/perl5/core_perl: it would take a lot of interim tabbing with default completion and only one tab after /u/s/p/core with this project.

How you can help

1. Suggest other illustrative examples that might attract users previously unfamiliar with such completion
2. Suggest a whole new outline for a better screencast
3. Comment on existing outline and suggestions
4. Record a better screencast with or without discussing the outline first (some tips to get started, I also recommend -w 0.5 or -w 0.4).

The plan is to gather some feedback and to record a replacement screencast for the README. I can do the recording myself if no one else volunteers, I just need a better outline.