[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#569638: bash-completion: allow alternate user completion file locations

[Eric Warmenhoven]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.1-3
Severity: wishlist

At the end of /etc/bash_completion, before all of the helpful utility
functions are unset, it sources the user completion file:

# source user completion file
[ $BASH_COMPLETION != ~/.bash_completion -a -r ~/.bash_completion ] \
    && . ~/.bash_completion

In this, $BASH_COMPLETION is the system bash completion file
(/etc/bash_completion). This forces the user configuration file to be
~/.bash_completion, but I'd really prefer if I could move it somewhere
(like under $HOME/etc). Even changing it to be something like:

# source user completion file
[ -n "$BASH_USER_COMPLETION" ] || BASH_USER_COMPLETION=~/.bash_completion
[ $BASH_COMPLETION != $BASH_USER_COMPLETION -a -r $BASH_USER_COMPLETION ] \
    && . $BASH_USER_COMPLETION

would be sufficient, and backwards-compatible.

Thanks,
Eric

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Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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