bzr shell-complete

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:59:51AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> The only bash completion I can find is this stub:
> 
>   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2005q2/000533.html
> 
> it would be good to add some, and to add tests for shell-complete at the
> same time.
> 
> Would it even be feasible to do 
> 
>    eval `bzr shell-complete --bash`
> 
> and have bzr emit all the code necessary to set up completion?  Can we
> do it inline or does the shell require a file?

I am sure you can do it inline.  I think you may have to use

    eval "`bzr shell-complete --bash`"

to make the newlines count as newlines rather than spaces.

Other programs work this way (e.g. lesspipe).

Marius Gedminas
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