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Re: [DOC] Documentation for `complete' compacts[] is incomplete.
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [DOC] Documentation for `complete' compacts[] is incomplete. |
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Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:29:42 -0400 |
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On 8/10/15 12:02 PM, Arthur200000 wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> Bash has incomplete documentation for builtins in `complete.def`. The
> [-abcdefgjksuv] options to specify
> types to complete are not documented. This is making writing
> completions some kind of black magic.
Have you considered reading the man page or perhaps the info doc? That's
where the actions are documented:
-A action
The action may be one of the following to generate a
list of possible completions:
alias Alias names. May also be specified as -a.
arrayvar
Array variable names.
...and so on.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/