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| author | Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> | 2011-10-15 18:11:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> | 2011-10-15 18:11:30 +0300 |
| commit | 99c4f7f25f50a7cb2fce86055bddfe389effa559 (patch) | |
| tree | c44c8150e03bbc9b7571c99a2cebe65db6208115 | |
| parent | 63747bf6c33c96ded4ef6bcb50ff71696af2b69c (diff) | |
| download | bash-completion-99c4f7f25f50a7cb2fce86055bddfe389effa559.tar.gz | |
README: Dynamic loading related updates.
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@@ -70,24 +70,11 @@ believed to be a bug in bash. II. -The have() function is used to conserve memory by only installing -completion functions for those programs that are actually present on -your system. The current method of determining whether or not a given -binary is present is whether or not it can be found along a certain -path of directories. The path that is currently searched is: - - $PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin - -where $PATH is your user path at the time the bash completion file is -sourced. - -III. - Many of the completion functions assume GNU versions of the various text utilities that they call (e.g. grep, sed and awk). Your mileage may vary. -IV. +III. If you are seeing 'unbound variable' warnings from bash when hitting <Tab>, this is because you have either 'set -u' or 'set -o nounset' @@ -127,10 +114,17 @@ Q. I author/maintain package X and would like to maintain my own completion code for this package. Where should I put it to be sure that interactive bash shells will find it and source it? - Put it in the directory pointed to by $BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR, which - is defined at the beginning of the main completion script. Any - scripts placed in this directory will be sourced by interactive - bash shells. Usually, this is /etc/bash_completion.d. + Install it in one of the directories pointed to by + bash-completion's pkgconfig file variables. There are two + alternatives: the recommended one is 'completionsdir' (get it with + "pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion") from which + completions are loaded on demand based on invoked commands' names, + so be sure to name your completion file accordingly, and to include + for example symbolic links in case the file provides completions + for more than one command. The other one which is present for + backwards compatibility reasons is 'compatdir' (get it with + "pkg-config --variable=compatdir bash-completion") from which files + are loaded when bash_completion is loaded. Q. I use CVS in combination with passwordless ssh access to my remote repository. How can I have the cvs command complete on remotely |