Thanks for the info.

I'm using fish under Ubuntu. Bash on Ubuntu does completion of make
targets from the included *.make files. I'll look into how they do it
and update the fish one if I can.

-mandeep

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote:
> __fish_print_make_targets is a fishscript function defined in the standard 
> functions dir $__fish_datadir/functions. In the Fish source, this is the 
> folder share/functions. The current implementation is just a grep over the 
> first file from the list [GNUmakefile, Makefile, makefile].
>
> Also, what do you mean by "bash does this"? The stock Bash 3.2.51(1)-release 
> included on OS X does not have completion for make. Did you install a set of 
> bash completions? In any case, you could look at how the bash completion 
> works and update the Fish implementation for the same functionality, and then 
> submit a pull request.
>
> -Kevin
>
>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was working on a project which was using makefiles for building a
>> bunch of stuff.
>>
>> This Makefile "includes" a lot of other *.make files from other
>> sub-projects in order to build them.
>>
>> However, I see thast fish can only do completions for the current
>> Makefile targets and doesn't seem to go into the sub-project's *.make
>> files to suggest targets (bash does this).
>>
>> Is this something that that's possible?
>>
>> The current fish completion uses '__fish_print_make_targets' to get
>> the targets. I guess this only looks at Makefile in the current dir?
>>
>> Is this already done in some fish release? Or should I work on adding it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -mandeep
>>
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