Re: bash completion after equals sign does not work after upgrading to bash_completion 2.1-2

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 3/13/2016 1:42 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
> > [Achim, /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc has some outdated comments
> > referring to /etc/bash_completion.]
>
> I need further discussion and preferrably a patch.  Since I don't use
> bash, I don't know anything about how its completion mechanism works and
> reading the man page makes me none the wiser.

I'm not an expert on bash-completion either, but here are my thoughts on 
what's in .bashrc now.  Someone who knows more should comment further.

> # Uncomment to turn on programmable completion enhancements.
> # Any completions you add in ~/.bash_completion are sourced last.
> # [[ -f /etc/bash_completion ]] && . /etc/bash_completion

This is obsolete because (a) /etc/bash_completion has been replaced by 
/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion and (b) the latter is already 
sourced by /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh.

> # COMP_CVS_REMOTE=1

This is probably OK.

> # COMP_CONFIGURE_HINTS=1

This is probably OK.

> # COMP_TAR_INTERNAL_PATHS=1

I don't think this will have any effect unless it's set *before* 
/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion is sourced; so it doesn't 
belong in .bashrc now that /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion is 
sourced by /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh.

Ken

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