Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: 'complete' not working as documented Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:25:06 -0400 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 28 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1534001118 20460 208.118.235.17 (11 Aug 2018 15:25:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Hugo Gabriel Eyherabide , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:cc:subject:to:references:from :organization:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=q90d/QvdJYrGg/OMgcbfG0jfQpSj3qiZ+96BjFD3PJk=; b=dkBLzSfJb+yNQBqOWM+YFiuJAoyo/Sfn7wbAc1K0TQFbtrGMZG32eiHGWUrqtUunbN +CkTCMCpxSi7ScWSCYdmx11KbYpC33FuH2Tbqs53nRJA58WQiSMp70FZ7F2/QJRqIEhX blE3ZHZazM7gXG7cn90/+cIGPVkS8qS5Prgwj6ysbrL2OmHjpNWLK4D5jMAx5+7f6U/B yYwIeuZgUwbl6PDiwpTN2pDSFGM1VCkyCuv7fp2RvV5cTmh2KA658cac28e8XBDxSLWG FyqhBsWHY8/tgU8xCJtbcuIeCSneouCOojcv+dmA5mWVa3ZOK1wV/27a+4G5XFXjLSGu NEJQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOUpUlF9a+4uCaOPaQXrG/GoHxHLnkZhCv31SZVMmWHO2VgNQrWXYUgA LGMVb3VIiL89vjgn1hS+vLKm1V6cmKSobHdLzKLbJsU3yB+kIaX1ZXVMvzJplPQbvtu6kmmdCNV KcbORssBOtxM= X-Received: by 2002:a24:2403:: with SMTP id f3-v6mr6061481ita.117.1534001109928; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 08:25:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA+uWPx+VFLkFDHIhpL/k/NgerYzLC44KQwZDn7rOc49VQZbyn4kzKTJognn+gYeO6Gym7/d+wWzfg== X-Received: by 2002:a24:2403:: with SMTP id f3-v6mr6061471ita.117.1534001109642; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 08:25:09 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=7/90, host=mpv3-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=7/90, refid=2.7.2:2018.8.11.144816:17:7.944, ip=, rules=__YOUTUBE_RCVD, __HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC1, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __FRAUD_MONEY_CURRENCY_DOLLAR, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_800_899, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, __FRAUD_MONEY_CURRENCY, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, IN_REP_TO, MSG_THREAD, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.194 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:14466 On 8/11/18 1:14 AM, Hugo Gabriel Eyherabide wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 18 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Bash manual says 'complete ... -D ... name' should be correct, whatever > between -D and name applying to the completion on a command for which > completion has not been previously defined. No. In the description, `remaining' means `the options and option arguments besides -D'. > and > > $ complete -p aabbname > > shows nothing, indicating that the completion for aabbname has never been > defined. Yes. Any additional command name arguments supplied with -D are not used. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/