[Bug 403717] Re: tab-completion for kill builtin slightly lacking.

[Peter Cordes]

I don't think numerical sorting is possible.  _kill() is getting its list of pids from
ps axo pid=
which returns a numerically sorted list, but I guess bash is lexicographically sorting completions like it always does.

 It would be possible to add completion for %jobnum, but would you
really use that?  It could only return a list of job numbers, not what
commands they were.  Given that job numbers tend to be very small and
nearby, if you don't know what job you want to kill, a list of the
numbers is unlikely to save you running a quick  jobs  command.

 Or do some people keep running a chain of background jobs so their job
numbers climb so high that you want to complete the initial 100 in front
of job 1005?

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Title:
  tab-completion for kill builtin slightly lacking.

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash-completion

  Ubuntu 9.04
  bash-completion 20080705ubuntu3
  1. Bash-completion for builtin jobs (preceded by %) nonexistent
  2. Is it possible to sort numerically instead of alphabetically?

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