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Re: [opensuse-factory] No more bash-completion in Factory?
- From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:06:47 +0100
- Message-id: <200903161606.48042.agruen@xxxxxxx>
Hello,
On Monday 16 March 2009 15:45:39 Vincent Untz wrote:
A likely reason is because bash-completion is a total maintenance nightmare,
the rules were never really working well, and they were causing endless bug
reports.
I keep hearing that other shells do a much better job than bash for
completion. Maybe we can take some of those ideas and improve bash completion
so that we can solve the problem once and for all instead of continuing to
struggle with an inappropriate mechanism?
Thanks,
Andreas
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On Monday 16 March 2009 15:45:39 Vincent Untz wrote:
It looks like bash-completion was removed from Factory. Any reason for
this?
A likely reason is because bash-completion is a total maintenance nightmare,
the rules were never really working well, and they were causing endless bug
reports.
I keep hearing that other shells do a much better job than bash for
completion. Maybe we can take some of those ideas and improve bash completion
so that we can solve the problem once and for all instead of continuing to
struggle with an inappropriate mechanism?
Thanks,
Andreas
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