[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#500316: gpg ID/identities completion is broken

[David Paleino]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: normal
Tags: confirmed

This is kind of a self-note :)

I was working on implementing gpg2 (#489927), and I just noticed that gpg
completion is not working properly.
In particular, according to the following code:

--@(export|@(?(l|nr|nrl)sign|edit)-key))
    # return list of public keys
    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$( gpg --list-keys 2>/dev/null | sed -ne 's@^pub.*/\([^ ]*\).*\(<\([^>]*\)>\).*$@\1 \3 at p')" -- "$cur" ))
    return 0
    ;;

(i.e. lines 6227-6231 of current bzr)

if I do:

$ gpg --edit-key <TAB>

I should get a list of IDs / Identities (i.e. e-mail addresses). This is not
true, since it happens that:

$ gpg --list-keys 2>/dev/null | sed -ne 's@^pub.*/\([^ ]*\).*\(<\([^>]*\)>\).*$@\1 \3 at p'
$

It also seems that the sed regexp is wrong. Splitting it, and omitting "-n"
from sed, we have quite a working list:

$ gpg --list-keys 2>/dev/null | sed -ne 's@^pub.*/\([^ ]*\).*$@\1@;s@^.*\(<\([^>]*\)>\).*$@\2 at p'
d.paleino at gmail.com
aksnah at gmail.com
david.paleino at poste.it
coscienza at tin.it
giuseppe.benigno at egregorion.net
francesco at namuri.it
debdev at tonelli.sns.it
[..]
$

Obviously, this *must* be fixed by adding the IDs completion as well.
I'm prioritizing this as "normal" because it's not really a major bug -- gpg
completion is still usable, even though not at its full power :)

I'll close this bug when I have something working.

Kindly,
David

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