[PATCH 0/1] bash completion without relying on /etc/bash-completion.d

[Lars Flitter]

Hi,

no, it's not in yet.


regard,

Lars

On 1/19/19 5:25 PM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Was this ever merged?  I like the idea a lot and it seems to allow us to have extensions install with requiring root.
>
> regards,
>
> bex
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018, at 9:34 PM, Lars Flitter wrote:
>> The bash completion introduced with 6a6222eef23d25bec90015e49bd69c42062434ee 
>> requires the extension completion files to be sourced. The idea was to install 
>> those files into /etc/bash_completion.d/
>> This takes advantage of the fact that bash-completion sources 
>> /etc/bash_completion.d/. This is not very clean as the extension completion 
>> files are not completions by themselves and therefore should not be sourced
>> by bash-completion, but I could not think of another way to make the user
>> source files when installing the extension with `make install`.
>>
>> Also, debian considers /etc/bash_completion.d/ to be deprecated
>> (https://bugs.debian.org/776954)
>>
>> The new approach to bash completion does not require sourcing the extension 
>> completion file.
>> Instead the pass completion now looks for extensions and completes the command
>> based on found extensions. Therefore extension command completion now works even
>> for extensions that do not bring their own completion.
>> For full extension completion a <command>.bash.completion file is sourced.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lars Flitter (1):
>>   bash completion without relying on /etc/bash-completion.d
>>
>>  Makefile                            |  6 +++-
>>  src/completion/pass.bash-completion | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.19.1
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