| Art Alexion on 15 Jun 2005 16:06:01 -0000 |
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Stephen Gran wrote: >On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:07:06AM -0400, Art Alexion said: > > >>I upgraded from warty to hoary a couple of weeks ago, and have a couple >>of issues I can't seem to resolve on my own. >> >> 1. _Bash Completion_ -- With warty, bash completion worked on >> executable parameters. For example, if I did a "sudo apt-get >> update", completion worked not just for "sudo" but also "apt-get" >> and "update". Now, only document parameters are supported by bash >> completion. For example, with "gedit ~/Documents/document", >> "document" will complete as well as gedit. I don't think this is >> a bash 3 problem, but rather a configuration problem. Any ideas >> how to fix? >> >> > >Are you sourcing /etc/bash_completion in your ~/.bashrc (or globally)? >This is where this sort of thing is set up. It's hairy shell code, but >you might want to take look there. > > Looking at ~/.bashrc reminded me to look at /etc/bash_completion. Could this section of the latter file be the problem? # start of section containing compspecs that can be handled within bash # user commands see only users complete -u su usermod userdel passwd chage write chfn groups slay w # group commands see only groups [ -n "$bash205" ] && complete -g groupmod groupdel newgrp 2>/dev/null "sudo a" won't complete to apt but rather to document beginning with "a" in the user home directory. >A second thought - does apt-get upd<tab> tab complete without the sudo? >If so, it is probably a bug in the implementation (completion is trying >to complete arguments to sudo rather than apt-get or something). It >does work well here (Debian unstable). > > No. "apt-g" will not complete to "apt-get", "apt-get u" completes to "apt-get unshorten"! -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC arthur [at] alexion [dot] com aim: aalexion sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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