[Bash-completion-devel] dd completion not working (was: Fwd: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion)

[David Paleino]

Freddy Vulto wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:36 PM, David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> This is due to COMP_WORDBREAKS containing "=":
> 
> I guess this bug turns up on bash-4 only?
> 
> This can be fixed by adding `=' as an argument to `_get_cword' so that
> _get_cword on bash-4 doesn't split words on `='.
> 
> Done so in commit f871fe4.

It didn't really fix the completion, for me at least.

> [..] If you use COMP_CWORDS, this is what you get on bash-4:
> 
>     $ dd if=<TAB>

This is even more broken earlier:

  $ dd if<TAB>
  $ dd if\=

And completion fails. With your fix, we only get right completions if you 
only <TAB> after the = (and write it manually).

Thanks for your work!
David (getting lost in the complexity of _get_cword())

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