Feature request: More convenient creation of fragments

[scoopex]

The creation of fragments is currently a bit inconvenient because the current mechanism does not support:

• interactive editing with readline support
• interactive selection of the fragment type
• direct feedback when the input (i.e. th issue id does not match to the configured pattern)

It would be a good thing to use something like questionary for that.
Additionally using commandline parameters with completion would also be a great thing for that:

towncrier create --issue 123 --type feature --content "Yolobanana change"

[adiroiban]

Hi Marc.

Thanks for the feedback.

I am always manually creating the newsfragment with my text editor/IDE.

I have never used the towncrier create tool.

I know that some people find it useful.

I am happy to review and approve a PR that improves the end user experience for towncrier create

[scoopex]

Great :-)
If find that useful because this addition can be used to add extra logic to:

• gather the issue id from a branch name by using a pattern
• checking rules for issue ids and text additions
• automating things

[adiroiban]

I think that using questionary to validate the type would be very usefull.
Also... automatic extraction of Issue ID based on branch name.

With that, I might start using towncrier create myself :p

[scoopex]

Great, started the implementation at #725 with some larger amount of refactoring.

[scoopex]

@adiroiban A quick update: Implementation has stalled somewhat because I've been very busy at work. I've implemented all the essentials of this topic, but now I need to correct the tests. Essentially, something seems to have gone wrong in the path logic during refactoring, and there still seems to be a link between the CLI tests and the Click Framework that I need to resolve. I'll take a look at it next weekend, but maybe you have an idea because you know the feature set of “towncrier” better.