fixed 392495 bash-completion/20060301-4 thanks Hi Tim,
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:40:20 +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > I believe xargs completion shouldn't be done through merely _longopt > -- it should be using the _command meta-command completion (at least > instead of _longopt -- but perhaps could be made to use both of them), > since you can supply programs with quite complicated sets of flags > before the list of filenames that xargs additionally tacks on the end. > > Most commandline invocations of xargs aren't done using any of the > xargs flags (well, until the user finds problems with their xargs > invocation), and thus we find the user will be wanting the > meta-command completion more often than the longopt completions. I believe this is already fixed in the latest bash-completion package (i.e. 20060301-4). I'm thus closing this bug, please feel free to comment further. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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