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pygoscelis
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 Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:36 pm Post subject: bashcomp woes |
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When bash completion (as in eselect bashcomp) is disabled, "cd ~/<tab>" will offer the list of all files and directories in the home directory for completion. "cd $HOME/<tab>" will do the same.
When bash completion is enabled, "cd ~/<tab>" will offer the list of just the directories (an improvement), but "cd $HOME/<tab>" will offer nothing (a huge letdown).
In fact, all commands I have tried enabling completion for behave the same. When FOO is set to /some/path, "$FOO/<tab>" gives nothing. With completion disabled, "$FOO/<tab>" gives the list of files under /some/path.
Can something be done about it? |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:44 am Post subject: Re: bashcomp woes |
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| pygoscelis wrote: | | Can something be done about it? |
pygoscelis ... I'm not that familiar with bash completion but both bash and zsh have 'cdable_vars' (bash: 'shopt -s cdable_vars').
Perhaps unrelated but there was also a bug (fixed in patch bash4.2-029) which caused some odd behavior in this regard, but this should be fixed in the current stable bash (4.2_p37).
Anyhow, with zsh
cd $HOME<tab> expands
cd ~<tab> expands
command ~<tab> expands
best ... khay |
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pygoscelis
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: bashcomp woes |
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| khayyam wrote: |
Anyhow, with zsh
cd $HOME<tab> expands
cd ~<tab> expands
command ~<tab> expands
best ... khay |
Yeah, looks like a switch to zsh is in order... |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:28 am Post subject: Re: bashcomp woes |
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| pygoscelis wrote: | | Yeah, looks like a switch to zsh is in order... |
pygoscelis ... be sure to add 'zsh-completion' to your useflags as though zsh comes with its own completions, the useflag will enable any additonal compeletions that might be provided with a package (ie: gentoolkit, eix, layman, etc).
Also, if you want to peruse my .zshrc, .zprofile, .zsh/{functions,completions,scripts}, .zshenv, .zlog{in,out} just PM me.
best ... khay |
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