[Bash-completion-devel] RFC: function to check if an array contains something

[Ville Skyttä]

On Monday 23 November 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Quite a few completions would and do benefit from checking if some argument
> was already given, not only checking if it was the previous one.  I think
>  this is tedious enough to warrant a helper function for it, assuming I
>  didn't miss a nice way to do it in bash.
> 
> So, how about the attached patch?

Nah, I looked more closely into the potential and actual use cases and found 
that this doesn't bring that many benefits after all, so I'm withdrawing the 
patch.