[task #15910] Auto-completion: Add tests

[Pedram Ashofteh Ardakani]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?15910>

                 Summary: Auto-completion: Add tests
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: pedram
            Submitted on: Thu 04 Mar 2021 06:51:06 PM UTC
         Should Start On: Thu 04 Mar 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC
   Should be Finished on: Thu 04 Mar 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC
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                Priority: 5 - Normal
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                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:

We should have a tool to test the auto-completion scripts while they are under
development. This ensures backward compatibility. We should not break previous
behavior and some rare cases that might come up. Obviously, developers might
forget to test a special case, or they might not have the time to test all the
test cases right after each minute change in code.

I have found a post by brbsix
<https://brbsix.github.io/2015/11/29/accessing-tab-completion-programmatically-in-bash/>
that tackles the very same issue. This looks like a neat approach to write
bash auto-completion tests.




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