Request for Testing: bash-completion 2.0
 

For everyone that uses the bash-completion package from /extra, please have a look at http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkman/bash-completion/ and consider testing the 2.0 prerelease (1.90 at the moment). Be sure to read over the README in there.

Besides the mentioned in the README improvements regarding pkgtools and slackpkg etc, theres also a new completion for sbopkg.

Hey, Robby,

Have been using completion for various stuff all day with your package installed, haven't noticed any problems.

working fine here too

seems to work allright

Breaks tab completion.

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Well, I have to use it differently ;)
removepkg kde{tab} <--- completes as I'd expect removepkg /var/log/packages/kde{tab}

Thanks for the feedback, guys - it's much appreciated.
Re the /var/log/packages/ tab completion (added space), I too have noticed that, but I also work around it by using the completion as intended. I guess it's arguable whether that's even a bug...

This should be fixed now in the master branch of bash-completion with this commit. If there is a slash somewhere in argument to removepkg, completion assumes that user tries to enter a filename.

> I guess it's arguable whether that's even a bug...

Completing filenames is not very useful, but sometimes it can be more desirable. For example, this way you can remove kde with one command :)
$ removepkg /srv/ftp/slackware/{kde,kdei}/*.txz

Awesome; thanks, GArik :) I just pushed a package rebuild with that patch.

Found a bug, just not sure if it happens only after package rebuild or it was there right from the start (I'll try to rebuild without the last patch). Here's how to reproduce:

The second attempt to complete does nothing. Happens only with files which have parentheses in their names.

Nope, still the same without the last patch. Also it seems that it's the escaping that's causing this, not the parens themselves (the bug occurs with escaped space characters etc).

This is a known issue. Completion fails if there are sequential duplicate items in a list of arguments. It is unlikely that this bug will be fixed before release of bash-completion-2.0 :(

Audrius, your issue is fixed now in the master branch. There is also one new slackware related improvement: completion for upgradepkg now supports "oldpkg%newpkg" notation ;)

This is great! Made a package using code from master branch, installed it, and indeed that pesky bug is gone. Thanks!

oldpkg%newpkg completion is a nice addition, too.

I just uploaded a rebuilt package with those patches :-)