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

[David Paleino]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:23:46 +0900, Morita Sho wrote:

> $ gdb traceroute[TAB]
> => traceroute        traceroute-nanog.db  traceroute6
> traceroute-nanog     traceroute.db        traceroute6.db
> 
> $ gdb traceroute-[TAB]
> => $ gdb traceroute-nanog     Oh my...
> 
> $ gdb traceroute-2[TAB]
> => $ gdb traceroute-2.0.11/   I got it!!
> 
> 
> BTW, can I make a suggestion?
> I read the code for gdb completion, the _gdb function.
> It calls compgen -c, I see that is a reason why gdb completes command names.
> COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -c -- $cur ) )
> 
> Why not add -d option to compgen?
> COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -d -c -- $cur ) )
> 
> I think adding -d option makes gdb completion better, especially on worst
> case, e.g. "traceroute-[TAB]" in above.

Agreed, sorry for not thinking at this before :)

Fixed in bzr.

Thanks,
David

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