The completion script depends on bash-completion 1.90 or later, with _init_completion function. If that's not present, for some reason, the completion currently fails with an ugly message, messing up user's command line:
$ notmuch -bash: _init_completion: command not found It's better to just not complete --- This is probably unnecessary since commit aff5af582ecbacb4004ad306c6ef463d61f1ed3a Author: Jani Nikula <j...@nikula.org> Date: Sun Feb 2 18:47:57 2014 +0200 configure: only install bash completion if supported but should not do harm. --- completion/notmuch-completion.bash | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/completion/notmuch-completion.bash b/completion/notmuch-completion.bash index d88c5e7d965e..0571dc9da8e3 100644 --- a/completion/notmuch-completion.bash +++ b/completion/notmuch-completion.bash @@ -395,6 +395,10 @@ _notmuch() { local _notmuch_commands="compact config count dump help insert new reply restore search setup show tag" local arg cur prev words cword split + + # require bash-completion with _init_completion + type -t _init_completion >/dev/null 2>&1 || return + _init_completion || return COMPREPLY=() -- 2.0.1 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch