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Package: bash
Version: 3.1-4
Severity: normal
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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1.16 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
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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
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