Re: [PATCH v4] git-completion.bash: add support for path completion

From: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 8, 2013, 18:28 UTC
Message-ID: <50EC6558.6080608@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130108180518.GO6440@serenity.lan>

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Il 08/01/2013 19:05, John Keeping ha scritto:

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>> After some searching, I found how this is supposed to be done.
>> It is possible to use the -o filenames option to tell Bash completion
>> that "the compspec generates filenames, so it can perform any
>> filename-specific processing".
>>
>> Unfortunately this option must be passed to the complete builtin
>> command, and we can not do this, since the comspec not always contains
>> filenames.
> 
> You should also be able to pass it to 'compopt' during completion in
> order to change the behaviour for only the current completion.
>

Thanks, compopt is what I wanted.

I was reading an old Bash manual (for Bash 3.1), and compopt is only available starting from Bash 4.0.

I will do some test, being careful to not break the code for Bash < 4.0 and the other supported shells.

Regards  Manlio
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