# bash completion on 4.0 broken?

2 messages from 2009-11-17 to 2009-11-17. Participants: Stephen Boyd, Michael J Gruber.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21650

## Stephen Boyd, 2009-11-17 06:46

Subject: bash completion on 4.0 broken?
Message-ID: <4B0246C7.6020401@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4B0246C7.6020401%40gmail.com

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When I try

    git show --pretty=<TAB><TAB>

I get a list of filenames and not the list of pretty formats.

I've debugged a little and see that the cur variable in _git_show () is 
set to '=' when it should be '--pretty='. So it looks like something is 
causing the command line to be split weirdly. Looking at the bash 
NEWS[1] for 4.0 I see

i.  The programmable completion code now uses the same set of characters as
    readline when breaking the command line into a list of words.


which causes me to believe this is why it's broken now. I've tried 
removing '=' from COMP_WORDBREAKS and that shows the list of formats 
correctly, but then causes the entire '--pretty=' to be replaced with 
the selected format.

Anyone else seeing the same problem or is my system just b0rked?

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.0.35(2)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

References:
[1] http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/NEWS

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## Michael J Gruber, 2009-11-17 09:54

Subject: Re: bash completion on 4.0 broken?
Message-ID: <4B0272EA.5020708@drmicha.warpmail.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4B0272EA.5020708%40drmicha.warpmail.net
In-Reply-To: <4B0246C7.6020401@gmail.com>

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Stephen Boyd venit, vidit, dixit 17.11.2009 07:46:
> When I try
> 
>     git show --pretty=<TAB><TAB>
> 
> I get a list of filenames and not the list of pretty formats.
> 
> I've debugged a little and see that the cur variable in _git_show () is 
> set to '=' when it should be '--pretty='. So it looks like something is 
> causing the command line to be split weirdly. Looking at the bash 
> NEWS[1] for 4.0 I see
> 
> i.  The programmable completion code now uses the same set of characters as
>     readline when breaking the command line into a list of words.
> 
> 
> which causes me to believe this is why it's broken now. I've tried 
> removing '=' from COMP_WORDBREAKS and that shows the list of formats 
> correctly, but then causes the entire '--pretty=' to be replaced with 
> the selected format.
> 
> Anyone else seeing the same problem or is my system just b0rked?
> 
> $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.0.35(2)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> References:
> [1] http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/NEWS

Ouch, just when I decided to use completion rather than a bunch of
aliases it stops working. B0rked here 0ls0 on Fedora 12 (with git.git's
next):

GNU bash, Version 4.0.33(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

Command name completion and prompt magic do work.

Michael

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