tidy up extractions and dynamic completion placement

tests/ports.rs

@@ -814,6 +814,23 @@ fn nushell_module() {
     assert!(nu.contains("--verbose(-v)"), "nu = {nu}");
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn long_switch_rejects_dash_only_separator_lines() {
+    // less's `--help` (and therefore zstdless/bzless wrappers) is full of
+    // separator lines like `---------------------------------------------------`.
+    // the first two chars look like a `--` prefix; the rest is just dashes.
+    // without an alphanumeric-first guard, the parser would treat the whole
+    // separator as a flag named `------…`.
+    let r = parse("  ---------------------------------------------------\n  -a, --all                  show all\n");
+    assert_eq!(
+        r.entries.len(),
+        1,
+        "separator should not parse as a flag, got {} entries",
+        r.entries.len()
+    );
+    assert!(matches!(&r.entries[0].switch, Switch::Both('a', l) if *l == "all"));
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn dedup_entries_help() {
     let txt = "  -v, --verbose              verbose output\n  --verbose                  verbose mode\n  -v                         be verbose\n";

tests/runtime_complete.rs

@@ -241,6 +241,71 @@ fn complete_returns_flags_only_after_hyphen() {
     let _ = fs::remove_dir_all(root);
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn complete_drops_exact_subcommand_match() {
+    // when the typed token exactly equals a cached subcommand, the binary
+    // returns null so a downstream dynamic completer (systemctl unit names,
+    // git remote names, etc.) can take over instead of echoing the
+    // already-typed word back.
+    let root = unique_temp_dir("inshellah-exact-subcommand-drop");
+    let cache_dir = root.join("cache");
+    fs::create_dir_all(&cache_dir).expect("cache dir");
+
+    let result = ManpageResult {
+        entries: Vec::new(),
+        subcommands: vec![
+            ManpageSubcommand {
+                name: "status".to_string(),
+                desc: "show status".to_string(),
+            },
+            ManpageSubcommand {
+                name: "start".to_string(),
+                desc: "start unit".to_string(),
+            },
+        ],
+        positionals: Vec::new(),
+        description: String::new(),
+    };
+    write_result(&cache_dir, "demo", "manpage", &result).expect("cache");
+
+    let exact = Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_inshellah"))
+        .arg("complete")
+        .arg("--dir")
+        .arg(&cache_dir)
+        .arg("demo")
+        .arg("status")
+        .output()
+        .expect("run inshellah complete");
+    assert!(
+        exact.status.success(),
+        "stderr = {}",
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(&exact.stderr)
+    );
+    let exact_stdout = String::from_utf8(exact.stdout).expect("stdout");
+    assert_eq!(
+        exact_stdout.trim(),
+        "null",
+        "exact match should hand off; stdout = {exact_stdout}"
+    );
+
+    let partial = Command::new(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_inshellah"))
+        .arg("complete")
+        .arg("--dir")
+        .arg(&cache_dir)
+        .arg("demo")
+        .arg("sta")
+        .output()
+        .expect("run inshellah complete");
+    let partial_stdout = String::from_utf8(partial.stdout).expect("stdout");
+    assert!(
+        partial_stdout.contains(r#""value":"status""#)
+            && partial_stdout.contains(r#""value":"start""#),
+        "partial should still match both; stdout = {partial_stdout}"
+    );
+
+    let _ = fs::remove_dir_all(root);
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn complete_resolves_absolute_path_after_elevation_wrapper() {
     let root = unique_temp_dir("inshellah-absolute-elevation-complete");