mitnk/cicada

cicada seems to have trouble with certain bash function names

msfjarvis opened this issue · 2 comments

msfjarvis commented

Case in point being git's completion script, trying to run source ~/.git-prompt.sh from inside cicada throws with cicada: __git_ps1_show_upstream: command not found.

So far I have tried the following things:

  • Drop the leading underscores in function names: No change
  • Add the function keyword before function names: No change
  • Mark ~/.git-prompt.sh as executable, add a bash shebang and directly execute it using ~/.git-prompt.sh: Execution succeeds but that doesn't resolve our use-case of needing those functions in the current shell.

I'll be glad to follow up with any additional debugging you'd like me to do.

mitnk commented

Hi @MSF-Jarvis, seems you thought cicada is compatible with bash/zsh - it's not. Means you cannot use existing bash/zsh scripts in cicada. You have to re-config stuff in cicada in a new way :-(

Please see FAQ section in the README. Also you could check out how completions works in cicada in docs as well.

msfjarvis commented

Hi @MSF-Jarvis, seems you thought cicada is compatible with bash/zsh - it's not. Means you cannot use existing bash/zsh scripts in cicada. You have to re-config stuff in cicada in a new way :-(

Please see FAQ section in the README. Also you could check out how completions works in cicada in docs as well.

Ah I see, must have misread something along the way. Thanks for the prompt response!