On 10/23/2011 10:41 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On 10/23/2011 03:08 AM, Igor Murzov wrote: >> Found a regression. Completing shell variables names no longer works. >> $ echo $B<TAB> >> gives me >> $ echo \$BASH >> for "dynamic-loading" branch. Further hits of tab button give no effect. > > I don't know if there's much/anything we can do about this. > _completion_loader needs to define *some* completion for the current > command, otherwise there will be no completion for it at all. So it's > the fallback definition at end of _completion_loader which breaks the > variable completion; more specifically the -f in it. And removing the > -f is not really an option - that'd break filename completion which is > what we want for commands we don't have completions for.
It just occurred to me that instead of doing "-o bashdefault -f" we can define a default completion function of our own and use that; then we have more control over stuff. I'll look into it. > But then again, completing variable names doesn't really work in the > master branch either for commands we install completions for. ...but I think this is something we can fix in _init_completion, will look into it as well. _______________________________________________ Bash-completion-devel mailing list Bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bash-completion-devel
