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bash package

  1. Bug #1173728
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1173728

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Peter Cordes (peter-cordes) wrote : Re: bash programmable completion not loaded by default

So to be clear, the changes I'm suggesting are:

* /etc/skel/.bashrc (pkg=base-files) change the progcomp check to an un-commented
# enable programmable completion
[[ -e /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh ]] && . /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh

* /etc/bash.bashrc (pkg=bash): remove the progcomp commented-out section, maybe replace with a comment like:
# enable programmable completion with this line, here or (default) in ~/.bashrc
# [[ -e /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh ]] && . /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh

Root's /root/.bashrc doesn't come into play on an ubuntu system, normally. Even if you use sudo -s, HOME doesn't change, so you still get your own ~/.bashrc

If you're mucking around with testing corner cases, put
echo "bash_completion callstack: ${BASH_SOURCE[*]}"
 in /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion to get output like
bash_completion callstack: /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh /home/peter/.bashrc

 Or drop that line into /etc/bash_completion.d/trace, if you don't want to modify a non-conffile.