Add the ability to define custom completers to the parsed_cmd template. (#109062)

If your arguments or option values are of a type that naturally uses one
of our common completion mechanisms, you w

Add the ability to define custom completers to the parsed_cmd template. (#109062)

If your arguments or option values are of a type that naturally uses one
of our common completion mechanisms, you will get completion for free.
But if you have your own custom values or if you want to do fancy things
like have `break set -s foo.dylib -n ba<TAB>` only complete on symbols
in foo.dylib, you can use this new mechanism to achieve that.

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Add the ability for Script based commands to specify their "repeat command" (#94823)

Among other things, returning an empty string as the repeat command
disables auto-repeat, which can be useful fo

Add the ability for Script based commands to specify their "repeat command" (#94823)

Among other things, returning an empty string as the repeat command
disables auto-repeat, which can be useful for state-changing commands.

There's one remaining refinement to this setup, which is that for parsed
script commands, it should be possible to change an option value, or add
a new option value that wasn't originally specified, then ask lldb "make
this back into a command string". That would make doing fancy things
with repeat commands easier.

That capability isn't present in the lldb_private side either, however.
So that's for a next iteration.

I haven't added this to the docs on adding commands yet. I wanted to
make sure this was an acceptable approach before I spend the time to do
that.

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[lldb] Fix Python test formatting (NFC)

Add the ability to define a Python based command that uses CommandObjectParsed (#70734)

This allows you to specify options and arguments and their definitions
and then have lldb handle the completi

Add the ability to define a Python based command that uses CommandObjectParsed (#70734)

This allows you to specify options and arguments and their definitions
and then have lldb handle the completions, help, etc. in the same way
that lldb does for its parsed commands internally.

This feature has some design considerations as well as the code, so I've
also set up an RFC, but I did this one first and will put the RFC
address in here once I've pushed it...

Note, the lldb "ParsedCommand interface" doesn't actually do all the
work that it should. For instance, saying the type of an option that has
a completer doesn't automatically hook up the completer, and ditto for
argument values. We also do almost no work to verify that the arguments
match their definition, or do auto-completion for them. This patch
allows you to make a command that's bug-for-bug compatible with built-in
ones, but I didn't want to stall it on getting the auto-command checking
to work all the way correctly.

As an overall design note, my primary goal here was to make an interface
that worked well in the script language. For that I needed, for
instance, to have a property-based way to get all the option values that
were specified. It was much more convenient to do that by making a
fairly bare-bones C interface to define the options and arguments of a
command, and set their values, and then wrap that in a Python class
(installed along with the other bits of the lldb python module) which
you can then derive from to make your new command. This approach will
also make it easier to experiment.

See the file test_commands.py in the test case for examples of how this
works.

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