Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:10:55PM +0000, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked:
> >Which version of bash completion? And which version of bash?
> >
> app-shells/bash-completion-20050121-r10
> app-shells/bash-3.1_p17

Okay, so you are on stable I see. 

> $ complete -p less
> complete -o filenames -F _longopt less
 
> >if you are in the directory with the README file, what happens if you
> >do
> >
> >compgen -f RE
> >compgen -d RE
> >
> >does it freeze up your computer?
> >
> No, it just does its stuff as expected.

how about if you do 

compgen -F _longopt 

It should print out an unsorted list of all the files and subdirs of
the given dir. Does it freeze up? 

If it doesn't, we can almost be sure that the problem is not with the
bash-completion script itself, since invoking compgen -F _longopt
should be the same as when you type "less <tab><tab>" on the
commandline. (At the same time, it might put hunting down the exact
problem out of my league.)

You mentioned that it seems to freeze for all completion you tried,
have you tried the following:

unzip <tab><tab>  (should just show a list of files ending in zip, ZIP jar, exe, pk3, etc...)
xv                (a list of image files)
qiv               (a list of image files)
vim               (a list of files that are not image files or archives)

and 

kill <tab><tab> (should return a list of pids)

can you please try those and report back?

Best Wishes, 

W

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