Bash: autocomplete from list

[Afsheen Ghorashy]

Le 01/08/2010 9:46 AM, Hal Burgiss a écrit :
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Luis Paulo<luis.barbas at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Afsheen Ghorashy<grasswistle at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Let us assume that I have a text file with expressions separated by line
>>> breaks.
>>>
>>> I would like Bash to include the expressions of this text file in its search
>>> when I press double-tab (autocomplete).
>>>
>>> Is this possible? How would I do it? Programming is no foe of mine.
>>>
>>>        
>> Nah...
>>
>>      
> It would be worth looking at some programmable completion tutorials.
> Programmable completion  is available with bash and allows for
> customizing the completion options. Its pretty flexible.
>
> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/tabexpansion.html
>
>    
I'll definitely look into this.
Thank you for this push in the right direction.
Grasswistle