I was having trouble remembering ant targets when building on windows so I thought it would be nice if I could just type the target names partially and press tab to auto complete them. A little bit of googling showed that its quite easy to do it on linux by modiyfing the .bashrc file.
I found that I could do this on windows by creating 0 byte files with the target names. So I wrote a small bat script to do this for me. All you have to do is copy the follwing script into a file called antl.cmd into ANT_HOME\bin.
@echo off
findstr "<target" build.xml > _o
echo targets in build.xml
echo.
FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2,3,4,5,* delims=,>,=, " %%i in (_o) do (
echo %%~k
REM. > %%~k
)
del _o After that if you do type antl into a shell where you are building your code the script creates the 0 byte files
for you. and voila!! you have auto complete
