On Mon, August 1, 2005 1:30 pm, Eric Blake said: > Sourcing bash_completion must be done for every interactive shell startup, > login or otherwise, for the completions to be available. And even on my > 2.5 GHz WinXP machine, "time . /etc/bash_completion" reports 1.346 s. > Also, I anticipate the time will only grow as upstream adds more > completions (it already includes 266 kbytes among 28 files to be sourced). > So based on your argument, I've decided that the bash_completion is not > enabled by default, and that you must edit your ~/.bashrc to source it > (and make sure your ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc, to cover login > shells) if you desire the features. I will also provide patches to > base-files to make this more obvious to new users.
Not a problem, just send me the patches :) J.