Smarter lib* aware autocompletion?
Bug #546794 reported by
Michael Forrest
This bug affects 29 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bash-completion (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This patch has lead to serious errors (comments #6, #7) and has clearly never been tested. It should be reverted (debdiff in comment #8).
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[ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:]
Binary package hint: apt
Wouldn't it be nice if when typing
apt-get install clu [press tab]
showed libclutter-* etc...
If the autocomplete was just capable of ignoring this common prefix, it would be easier to find a lot of things
:)
Related branches
Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
description: | updated |
Changed in bash-completion (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → maverick-alpha-1 |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: iso-testing |
no longer affects: | apt (Ubuntu) |
Changed in bash-completion (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Won't Fix |
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Attached is a debdiff that implements this functionality. I'd upload it myself, but I'll defer to mvo or another Ubuntu developer on whether this is worth the delta from Debian.
Ideally, apt-cache pkgnames should take multiple search arguments, to avoid having to make multiple calls to it. For example:
apt-cache --no-generate pkgnames clutter libclutter
For this reason, I'm adding an apt task.