Re: [PATCH] bash_completion: improvement, fixes and tests [was: Re: subversion and programmable completion]

Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:

> At 2:55 AM +0100 7/26/03, Philip Martin wrote:
>>My argument is that "svn --help " breaks further completion so I don't
>>want to completion to suggest it. The "--help" option is not special
>>here, all options break completion if they occur first, so "svn -v "
>>breaks further completion even though "svn -v st" is a valid command.
>
> Once you get to the --stuff, your completion is broken anyway, isn't
> it? But there are potentially completable things out there. Unless
> you wanted to universally encourage the neologism
>
> svn commit filename --flag

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, options can go in any order
after the sub-command. Completion for

   svn commit -
   svn commit SomeFile -
   svn commit -m foo SomeFile AnotherFile -

all suggest a bunch of commit options.

Do you mean that completion for --username does file completion? Yes,
it could do something more sophisticated than file completion (suggest
$USER perhaps), but that doesn't appear to me to be a reason for the
--help option to be suggested as a completion for "svn". What do we
gain by encouraging "svn --help" over "svn help"?

-- 
Philip Martin
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