smarter bash completion

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:24:55 -0400
Alvin Thompson <alvin-ubuntu at thompsonlogic.com> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> on suse 9.3, the bash completion is pretty smart. it knows to only
> list/complete directories after a 'cd' command and after a 'which'
> command, it completes commands from your path as normal. i'm sure it
> does other tricks i haven't noticed. is there any way to do these things
> on ubuntu?

In   /etc/bash.bashrc  :

# enable bash completion in interactive shells
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
fi


> if so why not make it the default?

I have no idea ;-)  I picked this up from some guru on IRC...  I agree, it seems like a good idea...

> 
> thanks,
> alvin


Peter


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