On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 09:15 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 5/23/18 5:44 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > So by that, do you mean that it's possible to stop autocompleting > > to > > files/dirs/binaries just using a programmable completion script? Or > > did > > I misunderstand? Apologies if that's the case. > > > > Right now we do have completion scripts to implement the help text > > for > > the commands (and for the empty set, which displays a general help > > with > > a summary), what's missing is stopping files/dirs/binaries > > completion > > for the first word, so that exclusively the commands are shown. > > Exactly. What you want, I gather, is a way to restrict completions on > the > command word to the small set of router commands valid in whichever > mode > the console happens to be. Programmable completion provides a > mechanism to > do that, but there is a missing piece of functionality that would > allow it > to work on the command word. That's the change I would prefer to see. > > Chet
Ah I see - I am more than happy to work on that instead, but (forgive my n00bness, first time hacking on Bash) could you please describe in a couple of lines what the missing piece is and what it should look like? Thanks! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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