[gentoo-user] What has bash_compleion done to me, and I to it?

[gentoo-user] What has bash_compleion done to me, and I to it?

[felix]

I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine.  Then I
read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and
pretty handy.  But somewhere along the way, bash completion has
screwed up, and now various things which used to work before bash
completion no longer work.  Such as

   cd $WWW/<tab>

where $WWW is one of my shell env vars.  It just dings, refuses to
complete.  I have to cd $WWW then cd again.

Or

    vi `ls /usr/port<tab>`

It won't complete anything inside back quotes.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_compleion done to me, and I to it?

[Xavier Parizet]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 08:24:57 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine.  Then I
> read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and
> pretty handy.  But somewhere along the way, bash completion has
> screwed up, and now various things which used to work before bash
> completion no longer work.  Such as
> 
>    cd $WWW/<tab>
> 
> where $WWW is one of my shell env vars.  It just dings, refuses to
> complete.  I have to cd $WWW then cd again.
> 
> Or
> 
>     vi `ls /usr/port<tab>`
> 
> It won't complete anything inside back quotes.

Which version of bash-completion do you use ?
If it is 0.20081219-r1 or earlier, configuration has change as notified by
ELOG summary after updating it, now you need to use eselect to enable
bash-completion.

Try as root : eselect bashcomp enable --global base and eselect bashcomp
enable --global gentoo to get some basics...
As a normal user, remove the --global switch.

HTH.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_compleion done to me, and I to it?

[felix]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:37:10PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote:
> Which version of bash-completion do you use ?

app-shells/bash-completion-1.0-r3

> Try as root : eselect bashcomp enable --global base and eselect bashcomp
> enable --global gentoo to get some basics...
> As a normal user, remove the --global switch.

I had already done that, but I did it again just to be sure --

    Xyzzy=1;while [ $Xyzzy -lt 74 ]; do eselect bashcomp enable $Xyzzy --global; Xyzzy=`expr $Xyzzy + 1`; done

and all came thru as already enabled.

These completion errors I get are of two kinds: it does not work at
all inside backquotes, and it doesn't work following env vars.  It
does work elsewhere, and does have a few foibles where programs don't
recognize certain file types and I have to trick it, but generally it
works as expected outside back quotes and without env vars.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_completion done to me, and I to it?

[Stroller]

On 19 May 2009, at 16:24, felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine.  Then I
> read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and
> pretty handy.  But somewhere along the way, bash completion has
> screwed up, and now various things which used to work before bash
> completion no longer work. ...

My experience with Gentoo's extended bash completion has not been  
positive.

After reading other posters negative comments in this thread, I just  
gave up on it.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/179589

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_completion done to me, and I to it?

[felix]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:51:43PM +0100, Stroller wrote:

> After reading other posters negative comments in this thread, I just  
> gave up on it.
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/179589

Heh ... I added a comment to that thread and hoped it owuld eventually
be solved, but I guess not.  Maybe it would be better to just dump it
altogether.  It doesn't provide a whole lot of vital functionality.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_completion done to me, and I to it?

[Stroller]

On 19 May 2009, at 18:04, felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:51:43PM +0100, Stroller wrote:
>
>> After reading other posters negative comments in this thread, I just
>> gave up on it.
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/179589
>
> Heh ... I added a comment to that thread and hoped it owuld eventually
> be solved, but I guess not.  Maybe it would be better to just dump it
> altogether.  It doesn't provide a whole lot of vital functionality.

Yeah, I meant to say in my previous post that I think the best  
approach is to set USE="-bash-completion" in make.conf when the system  
in installed, and then never change it.

On a system which I changed from bash-completion to -bash-completion,  
it just kinda seems like it's still not right sometime later. I'm sure  
it's possible to remove all residue & remnants of Gentoo's bash  
completion "hack", but I have no idea where it's all stored.

Stroller.