On Tue, 19 May 2009 08:24:57 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine. Then I
> read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and
> pretty handy. But somewhere along the way, bash completion has
> screwed up, and now various things which used to work before bash
> completion no longer work. Such as
>
> cd $WWW/<tab>
>
> where $WWW is one of my shell env vars. It just dings, refuses to
> complete. I have to cd $WWW then cd again.
>
> Or
>
> vi `ls /usr/port<tab>`
>
> It won't complete anything inside back quotes.
Which version of bash-completion do you use ?
If it is 0.20081219-r1 or earlier, configuration has change as notified by
ELOG summary after updating it, now you need to use eselect to enable
bash-completion.
Try as root : eselect bashcomp enable --global base and eselect bashcomp
enable --global gentoo to get some basics...
As a normal user, remove the --global switch.
HTH.
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