[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#618734: [RFC/PATCH] 'tar jcf <TAB>' should complete arbitrary filenames

[Jonathan Nieder]

Ville Skyttä wrote:

> Upstream git now has some consistency and other improvements in this area:

What do you think of Adam's suggestion that "tar cf", unlike "tar rf",
shouldn't look for existing .tar files at all?

In practice, commit 14fc9f29 (If _filedir 'ext' returns nothing, just
fallback to generic file completion, 2011-03-20) would mostly take
care of the use case I suspect, so this is mostly a question about
principles.  Your patches definitely improve things regardless;
thanks. :)