add bash_completion functionality
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It would be great if vcsh would include a bash_completion script, which the user could plug into /etc/bash_completion.d. For example, I could then type
vcsh e <TAB>
and have
vcsh emacs
in my terminal. This would save quite some typing.
There are completion routines for vcsh already. It sounds like you may not have them installed properly. What distro are you using and how did you go about installing vcsh?
I'm on Debian sid. I just checked the Debian package and could see that a script _vcsh is installed to /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/. Should the _vcsh in this repo work with Bash and zsh? If so, I'll file a bug against the Debian package ...
@andreas-h I don't know about that. It's been a while since I've used bash. That may need to be converted to another format before bash can make sense of it. Might have to wait for somebody in the know on that one.
AFAIK, you need to write Bash completions in Bash's language. You could try tossing this onto the Bash mailing lists or similar. I will gladly include any such completions in vcsh, but I lack the time, and motivation, to do this myself.
Having read this I came up with https://github.com/bertenvdb/vcsh_bash_completion
It's not perfect, but for now that's the best I can do, not really knowing much about bash or coding in general. I also don't even use vcsh that much anymore, my configs are pretty stable ATM :-)