[Bash-completion-devel] vncviewer

[David Paleino]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:05:33 +0100, Freddy Vulto wrote:

> Do we have a standardized way in bash-completion for selecting alternative
> completions?

No :/

I believe we could do something a _get_alternative() function: in
Debian/Ubuntu/thelike it would check the symlinks in /etc/alternatives/, in
other distributions we might ask whether they have something similar (also
using external tools is good, just need to be sure they're there) -- and then,
complete "vncviewer" depending on the alternative. something like

case "$alternative" in:
 "tightvnc")
   complete -f _tightvnc vncviewer ;;
 "vncfoobar")
   complete -f _vncfoobar vncviewer ;;
esac

Obviously, $alternative would be handled by some other code there.

Just my two cents,
David

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