[Workaround] Weird vim bash completion behaviour

Currently running bash-completion 1.2-2. Vim does not seems to auto-complete files when I am in the root of my home directory(i.e. just '~' and no subdirectories); only sub-directories are given as possible options. Resourcing /etc/bash_completion does not have any effect. Other current working directories work fine. Running this line from /etc/bash_completion does seem to fix it:
complete -f -X '*.@(o|so|so.!(conf)|a|rpm|gif|GIF|jp?(e)g|JP?(E)G|mp3|MP3|mp?(e)g|MPG|avi|AVI|asf|ASF|ogg|OGG|class|CLASS)' vi vim gvim rvim view rview rgvim rgview gview emacs xemacs sxemacs kate kwrite
Resourcing /etc/bash_completion breaks it again, really weird.
I have no idea what's going on. Maybe bash-completion has trouble with the '~' character somehow?
EDIT: only the root of the user's home directory is affected (i.e. just '~' and no subdirectories)
Last edited by OutOfPhase (2011-03-24 16:02:41)

Seems that some completion rules are being deleted in the lines 1632-1653 in /etc/bash_completion, which is the very file that adds the completion rules in the first place(!) This hardly makes any sense. Somewhere in that block things go wrong.
Commenting crucial lines from this block, for example line 1644, fixes it.

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conky) vim ~/.conkyrc ;;
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mpd) vim ~/.mpd/mpd.conf ;;
mutt) vim ~/.mutt/muttrc ;;
ncmpcpp) vim ~/.ncmpcpp/config ;;
moc) sudo vim /home/kolibry/.moc/config ;;
moctheme) sudo vim /home/kolibry/.moc/themes/kolibry_theme ;;
weechat) vim ~/.weechat/weechat.conf ;;
pacman) sudo vim /etc/pacman.conf ;;
mirrorlist) vim /etc/pacman/mirrorlist ;;
termite) vim ~/.config/termite/config ;;
ranger) vim ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf ;;
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*.tbz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xzf $1 ;;
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#Red \e[0;31m
#Purple \e[0;35m
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#Light Purple \e[1;35m
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LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf "\e[1;44;33m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf "\e[0m") \
LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf "\e[1;32m") \
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Last edited by Kolibry (2014-10-19 20:40:15)

[SOLVED] Slight issue concerning pacman & bash completion

Hi all,
I've come across a small issue when using the -Rs option with pacman.
The auto completion doesn't appear to be working for the first package name passed after the -Rs option.
For example, when issuing the command
pacman -Rs firefox
and pressing tab twice, it will not show any options or auto-complete. However, if I add another package to be removed:
pacman -Rs firefox chr
and hit the tab key twice, autocomplete will work, and it'll autocomplete to chromium.
Bash-completion (2.0-3) is installed, and the rest of the system is up to date. Am I missing something here, or have I stumbled upon a bug?

I don't know so much about it, but I'm under the impression that bash-completion for pacman (once enabled in ~/.bashrc by adding "complete -cf pacman") works by default by checking the user's PATH variable, i.e. it will offer to complete pacman commands with the name of any executable in the user's PATH's () as well as the contents of the current directory. ... which means: if firefox isn't installed, it won't find it; if it is, it will offer this completion; if there's a file called firefox in the current directory, it will also offer it.
but as I said, I'm not an expert on bash-completion

Loading bash-completion faster?

getting sick of having to wait a second or so anytime i load a new shell to see my PS1.
i found out that the sole culprit is sourcing /etc/bash_completion.
I know you can already start typing when processing .bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc is still ongoing, but it's kinda ugly.
anyone knows how to make it faster?
just some ideas that may [not] be feasible/possible:
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- make a custom package of bash-completion that has no files for stuff i don't use (apt, moosay, yum etc)

I didn't believe you in #bash. ;)
Anyway, you can try set -a or export -f function_name (lots of functions in bash_completion so exporting them one by one isn't practical).
Putting set -a in ~/.bash_profile will export everything. This could be a solution since that file is only sourced during login shells, meaning it'll only load it once per vc. Now instead of sourcing bash_completion from bashrc, do it from bash_profile.
The trade-off is that now these functions/variables are available in non-interactive instances like scripts, which shouldn't be a problem since good scripts define their functions or source them at runtime.
Edit: make sure SHELLOPTS is not exported, else the -a attribute gets inherited.
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/etc/bash_completion.d/git: line 123: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
/etc/bash_completion.d/git: line 123: ` done < <(git config -z --get-regexp '^(svn-remote\..*\.url|bash\.showupstream)$' 2>/dev/null | tr '\0\n' '\n ')'
I have not changed /etc/bash_completion.d/git at all, and the file appears to be the right one from the git package. Git's bash-completion seems to work, if I type 'git p' and then tab it'll show me push/pull as options....
Ideas, anyone? Only happening to me?

Looks like this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101586

Problems with Bash Completion

Hi,
I recently noticed an odd new behavior of the bash-completion package.
For example:
Lets say there is folder called 'Downloads'. The oldd behavior was:
mv Dow[tab]
mv Downloads/
Now, it's like this:
mv Dow[tab]
mv Downloads
(with a space after 'Downloads')
It's annoying because, you can't get an ls output when pressing tab again.
Another example: Let's assume there is a file called 'some file.txt'
Old:
mv some[tab]
mv some\ file.txt
New:
mv some[tab]
mv some file.txt
Pretty annoying too. mv doesn't work anymore because of the space in the filepath.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113158

Netcfg2 with bash-completion

I've written a script to support bash completion for netcfg2.
Here it is:
http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~sitarzm/A … on/netcfg2
Just download it and place it in /etc/bash_completion.d, log out and login again and give it a try.

MAC!EK wrote:
Since the script was quite old I replaced it with a new version on that site:
http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~sitarzm/A … ion/netcfg
or
http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~sitarzm/A … on/netcfg2
uastasi if you want the completion to work with 'n' command add a line at the end:
complete -F _netcfg n
Awesome, thank you :)

Bash completion of alias

I have the following lines in my .bashrc:
alias y='yaourt'
alias yq='y -Q'
complete -o filenames -F _yaourt y
This allows me to do bash completion with just 'y -Q' or 'y' followed by any argument. However, I'm trying to get completion to work when I type in 'yq'. I was wondering if there was a way to send the argument '-Q' to the yaourt completion? Or would I need to write a separate wrapper function?

Yes, but it doesn't work. The problem is that yaourt by itself has no tab completion. It requires arguments so that it knows what type of completion it is: ie. installed vs not installed programs. I would prefer to get it to work in bash, but if not, I'll take a look at zsh.

Bash-completion for archlinux (ready for testing)

EDIT (20031013): new url & version 1.0 is out
Hello all,
I've created a bash-completion script for AL.
Get it from :
http://www.kegep.tuc.gr/~manolis/archli … ion.script
Then :
pacman -S bash-completion
copy my script as /etc/bash_completion.d/archlinux
source /etc/profile
or log out & back in to enable auto-completion.
Then simply try pacman -S [tab] to check it.
So far it auto-completes the init scripts (try /etc/rc.d/network [tab]...), makepkg & pacman.
Please test it & report any problems or suggestions so that it could get included in the bash-completion pkg.

sud_crow wrote:Im not chassing you, i swear!
I begin to feel like a dot in pacman .
sud_crow wrote:Can you post some explination about its use?? what it does exactly (i know what auto-completions is, but, what auto-completes and how?)
Auto-completion is the best thing since fresh bread . You already use it, when you press [tab] or (ie pac[tab]) and it completes the rest of the word (ie pacman). The bash-completion pkg provides some more advanced completion features, like man pac[tab] and it completes it to man pacman, or ssh [tab] and it completes using the hosts included in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
My script provides these features for ArchLinux. Simply try pacman -S [tab] and enjoy the list of all available packages for installation on your system. Or pacman -Q -l [tab] that completes from packages installed in your system. Then try /etc/rc.d/network [tab], it will list 'restart start stop'
(ps. [tab] == pressing the 'tab' key on your keyboard btw.)

Bash-completion upgrade conflicts with pacman

pacman warned me that /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/makepkg would be overwritten.
pacman -Oo said then that it's part of bash-completion 1.99-1, but there's already bash-completion 1.99-2 that hasn't any more included that file cause now as it seems, the file move into the new pacman package.
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 50dbc12ba0
So following process to not corrupt anything:
1) Move the file out of the way:
# mv /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/makepkg /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/makepkg.bak
2) Upgrade pacman
# pacman -S pacman
3) Upgrade bash-completion (this step will remove the file)
# pacman -S bash-completion
4) Reinstall pacman again, to not loose the file.
# pacman -S pacman
5) Now, you can remove the backup.
# rm -f /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/makepkg.bak

toofishes wrote:
defcon wrote:
i've seen that pacman 3.1 has it's own bash completion file
i installed the new pacman, but bash_completion doesnt work....
Did you source it or logout/login? It doesn't magically do that itself.
. /etc/bash_completion
both, i reload it with source ~/.bashrc and later i logged out/in

Bash completion upgrade breaks pacman bc

hello,
today's bash completion upgrade deletes the archlinux file under /etc/bash_completion.d/.
pacman's bash completion doesn't work anymore. i've seen that pacman 3.1 has it's own bash completion file.
is this somehow related?
vlad
ps: i'm not using testing.
Last edited by DonVla (2008-01-10 17:50:15)

toofishes wrote:
defcon wrote:
i've seen that pacman 3.1 has it's own bash completion file
i installed the new pacman, but bash_completion doesnt work....
Did you source it or logout/login? It doesn't magically do that itself.
. /etc/bash_completion
both, i reload it with source ~/.bashrc and later i logged out/in

Bash-Completion notice

Hi,
I already flagged bash-completion several days ago in the packages system, but i wanted to stress the need for an update, here is the extract from the developer's site: http://www.caliban.org/bash/
bash 3.1 is now available. Initial reports suggest that there are some minor incompatibilities between this version and the 20050721 release of the bash completion code, which many people are still using. Please ensure that you upgrade to the 20060301 release, which is believed to fix these issues.
As you know, we have bash 3.1 on current for some time now, and well, i just wish i could use bash-completion again
I dont know where to post this, packages forums changed since the AUR and well... this is the best place i could find.

sud_crow wrote:
Hi iphitus,
i flagged it out of date, i didn't know the consequences of that, that issues a bug-tracker ticket?
just as a side note:
i thought on posting it because i know that the flag doesn't necessarily mean the update is important, but as this package didn't work anymore, i wanted to let know it was a pretty important update... although its not a base package and i / it can wait!
No, the flag emails the developer.
What i meant is that, most devs dont read the forums, but most do check the bug tracker, and would take notice if you issued a bug ticket to inform them.
iphitus

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