Yes, CONFIG_FEATURE_TAB_COMPLETION for generic completion and CONFIG_FEATURE_USERNAME_COMPLETION for home completion
2014-10-25 13:14 GMT+02:00 Sven-Göran Bergh <[email protected]>: > > Hi again, > > just want to roll over and apologies for the disinformation I may have > caused. I was heavily confusing my systems. I blame it on the weekend. > > ash does not used the same mechanism as bash, so it may not be extended > like bash. bash relies on the built-in command "complete" to configure > this while ash has it compiled in. Thus, ash only have the most basic > completions like directories, tilde and $PATH, but that is all I need, > so I'm happy with that. > > Forget all I said about bash in my previous post. Just make sure you > have CONFIG_FEATURE_TAB_COMPLETION=y when you build BB and you are fine. > > Sorry for the spam > /S-G > > > On 10/25/2014 11:05 AM, Sven-Göran Bergh wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 10/24/2014 09:40 PM, John Spencer wrote: >>> >>> Sven-Göran Bergh wrote: >>>> >>>> Just source /etc/bash_completion in either .bashrc or .profile. >>> >>> >>> what would be the contents of this file, that make expansion of the >>> tilde work ? /etc/bash_completion is not installed on my box. >> >> >> Sure tilde expansion works. >> >> /etc/bash_completion is an ordinary shell script file containing >> instruction sets for the completions that you want. It is commonly used >> by bash. Personally I run debian, but I am sure most distros have it. >> In debian /etc/bash_completion is a symlink to >> /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion. It includes all files >> in /etc/bash_completion.d, so you can pretty much pick and choose what >> completions you want, or even write your own once. >> >> In my embedded project I only use a minimal /etc/bash_completion for the >> most basic stuff. >> >>> (just to make sure we're talking about the same thing: >>> $ ls ~/.s<TAB> should expand to ~/.ssh/ or /home/user/.ssh, but doesn't) >> >> >> # ls ~/.s<TAB> gives me ~/.ssh/ >> >>> while we're at it, the other autocompletion thing ash doesn't support >>> out-of-the-box is expansion of directories in the first position on the >>> actual line. >>> for example i want to run utils/foo.sh >>> $ u<TAB> >>> doesn't expand to utils/, whereas >>> $ ./u<TAB> >>> does. >> >> >> Yes, it works exactly as i bash. It all depends on how may files you >> want in /etc/bash_completion.d/. Ex. in the kernel source tree on my >> system you can just: >> >> # make <TAB><TAB> >> >> and you get a list of all valid targets in the Makefile. >> >>> would be nice if this could be enabled using some trick. >> >> >> Check out the files .bashrc, .profile or their global cousins in /etc, >> in your working bash environment. Somewhere /etc/bash_completion >> (or something similar) is sourced. Study the structure and just transfer >> the parts you want to your ash environment. Then make sure you have >> CONFIG_FEATURE_TAB_COMPLETION=y when you build BB. >> >> Happy tweaking >> /S-G >> >>>> ash will pick it up and use it in the same way as bash. >>>> Have never had any problem with this. Works like a charm. >>>> >>>> Brgds >>>> /S-G >>>> >>>> On 10/24/2014 05:20 PM, John Spencer wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Matteo Croce wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Refactor read_line_input to accept a list of strings which are >>>>>> added byt the autocompletion suggestions. >>>>>> Let ash pass the builtin command list to read_line_input to enable >>>>>> completion of builtin commands as echo, printf, history, exec, etc. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> nice. could this mechanism be used to expand ~ to the contents of $HOME >>>>> for autocompletion ? lack of this expansion is currently my major >>>>> annoyance with ash and the reason i still use bash... >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> busybox mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> busybox mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox > > > > > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox -- Matteo Croce OpenWrt Developer _______ ________ __ | |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M ----------------------------------------------------- CHAOS CALMER ----------------------------------------------------- * 1 1/2 oz Gin Shake with a glassful * 1/4 oz Triple Sec of broken ice and pour * 3/4 oz Lime Juice unstrained into a goblet. * 1 1/2 oz Orange Juice * 1 tsp. Grenadine Syrup ----------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
