[Bash-completion-devel] Non-filename completions containing slashes and -o filenames

[Todd Zullinger]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to do the right thing with non-filename
> completions containing slashes in a function that was passed to
> complete along with -o filenames.
>
> For example:
>
> _foo()
> {
>   COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'a/b c/d e/f/g' -- ${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} ) )
> }
> complete -F _foo -o filenames foo
>
> a/b, c/d and e/f/g are *not* file/path names but other completions
> that just happen to contain slashes.  Whenever I wan't some of them,
> I don't want file/dirname completion.

Heh, I ran into the same thing while working on completion for eyeD3
upstream (genre completions like 'Rock/Pop' drove me crazy).  I got
sidetracked before resolving it.  If no one here knows, asking on the
bug-bash at gnu.org list might bear fruit.

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