[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#463969: bash-completion: The bug seems to still present in 20080617.5

[David Paleino]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:51:54 +0900, Morita Sho wrote:

> On 06/25/2008 09:27 PM, David Paleino wrote:
> > This is how gdb completion is intended to work -- commands have precedence
> > over anything else. It's more common doing:
> > 
> > $ gdb <command in $PATH>
> > 
> > than
> > 
> > $ gdb <directory with a name starting with the same letters as [..]>
> > 
> > I hope you get my point.
> 
> Thanks for your quick response.
> 
> I know what you mean, but IMHO
> * gdb completion should not completes non existing program name. (e.g. Bash's 
> built-in command names.)
> * gdb completion should ALSO completes directory names.

It ALSO completes directory names. But commands in $PATH have precedence, so I
can't do anything about this.

> I agree that executing gdb for command in $PATH is common usage.
> However it is also common that executing gdb for programs under the current 
> directory.
> For example, recently I run gdb for traceroute that locally built with a
> debug symbols as follow:
> $ apt-get source traceroute
> [..]
> $ gdb traceroute-2.0.11/traceroute/traceroute
> 
> If gdb does not complete directory names, I need to type "traceroute-2.0.11"
> by hand. It's very inconvenient.

GDB *does* complete directory names. The unfortunate case is having a directory
name which starts the same as a $PATH command.

> Therefore, I think it would be better if gdb completes directory names as
> well as command names.

Again, it does. Just that command names take precedence.

David

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