On Fri, Jul 26 2013, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 24/07/13 15:06, Douglas J Hunley wrote: >> As of bash-completion-2.1-r1 it appears the eselect module is gone and >> the use of /etc/bash-completion.d is dead. Does this mean that all >> completions are enabled globally by default now? It used to be that you >> could turn each individual one on/off either globally or per user. >> Anyone know what the new 'one true way' is here? > > As others pointed out, you now need to: > > source /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion > > in your ~/.bashrc. However, you also need to clean out anything in > /etc/bash_completion.d/ and then: > > ln -s /usr/share/bash-completion/gentoo /etc/bash_completion.d/ > > Otherwise, completion for Gentoo stuff (like "emerge") will not be > available.
Although I have a number of files and one subdirectory in /usr/share/bash-completion, I have neither /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion /usr/share/bash-completion/gentoo Presumably I have forgotten to turn something on; would you know what? thanks, allan /usr/share/bash-completion: total used in directory 52K available 14G drwxr-xr-x 2 4.0K Jul 25 09:20 completions -rw-r--r-- 1 2.5K Jan 31 22:15 colormgr -rw-r--r-- 1 553 Feb 27 10:52 dbus -rw-r--r-- 1 1.2K Dec 30 2012 dconf -rw-r--r-- 1 935 Dec 30 2012 gdbus -rw-r--r-- 1 1.4K Dec 30 2012 gresource -rw-r--r-- 1 2.6K Dec 30 2012 gsettings -rw-r--r-- 1 2.5K Jan 16 2013 gvfs -rw-r--r-- 1 3.4K Jun 15 11:15 ibus -rw-r--r-- 1 6.4K Jul 15 16:48 libreoffice -rw-r--r-- 1 1.4K Jul 16 21:32 rake -rw-r--r-- 1 475 Jul 15 14:53 zeitgeist-daemon
