[Bash-completion-devel] [Bash-completion-commits] [SCM] bash-completion branch, master, updated. 7d45595493e1f830a3ddbdff845f05ce5a0bc696

[Ville Skyttä]

On Tuesday 26 October 2010, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Le 25/10/2010 20:50, Ville Skyttä a écrit :
> >     Mandriva has applied a similar patch for some time already, although
> >     their environment variable name was different ($COMP_AVAHI_BROWSE).
>
> I'm still interested in merging remaining similar patches (for rpm
> database completion,

I don't personally find rpmdb completion too slow to warrant it being off by 
default.  And unlike the avahi case with known hosts completion (which still 
returns quite meaningful results without avahi), I think completing installed 
package names for rpm commands that need them is quite essential.

> and scp remote filesystem completion),

This one can be slow, but is it really a problem?  Again compared to the 
avahi+known_hosts case it's different - if we disable this, then there are no 
remote file completions at all.  People can already accomplish that by just 
not hitting tab directly after the colon.  Or do I miss something?

So my opinion about the rpm and scp cases above is that they should not be 
turned off by default, but if someone wants to do it the other way around and 
provide a variable that people can set if they want them turned off, no 
objections here.

> and standardising variable names.

Yep, I think this should be considered as part of the function naming roadmap 
item for 2.0.