I don't have a 'make' file under /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ but under /etc/bash_completion.d/make (maybe a linux/debian thing).
I'll look into this file. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote: > More specifically, this is defined in > /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/make and includes a second function > `_make_target_extract_script` that does a lot of the work. > > -Kevin > >> On Sep 11, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote: >> >> It appears bash uses a function called `_make` to do it. `type _make` will >> print out its definition. >> >> -Kevin >> >>> On Sep 11, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the info. >>> >>> I'm using fish under Ubuntu. Bash on Ubuntu does completion of make >>> targets from the included *.make files. I'll look into how they do it >>> and update the fish one if I can. >>> >>> -mandeep >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote: >>>> __fish_print_make_targets is a fishscript function defined in the standard >>>> functions dir $__fish_datadir/functions. In the Fish source, this is the >>>> folder share/functions. The current implementation is just a grep over the >>>> first file from the list [GNUmakefile, Makefile, makefile]. >>>> >>>> Also, what do you mean by "bash does this"? The stock Bash >>>> 3.2.51(1)-release included on OS X does not have completion for make. Did >>>> you install a set of bash completions? In any case, you could look at how >>>> the bash completion works and update the Fish implementation for the same >>>> functionality, and then submit a pull request. >>>> >>>> -Kevin >>>> >>>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Mandeep Sandhu >>>>> <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I was working on a project which was using makefiles for building a >>>>> bunch of stuff. >>>>> >>>>> This Makefile "includes" a lot of other *.make files from other >>>>> sub-projects in order to build them. >>>>> >>>>> However, I see thast fish can only do completions for the current >>>>> Makefile targets and doesn't seem to go into the sub-project's *.make >>>>> files to suggest targets (bash does this). >>>>> >>>>> Is this something that that's possible? >>>>> >>>>> The current fish completion uses '__fish_print_make_targets' to get >>>>> the targets. I guess this only looks at Makefile in the current dir? >>>>> >>>>> Is this already done in some fish release? Or should I work on adding it? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> -mandeep >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> Want excitement? >>>>> Manually upgrade your production database. >>>>> When you want reliability, choose Perforce >>>>> Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. >>>>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Fish-users mailing list >>>>> Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users >>>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Want excitement? >> Manually upgrade your production database. >> When you want reliability, choose Perforce >> Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk_______________________________________________ >> Fish-users mailing list >> Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
