[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][312708] Useless kompare/cdiff completions - please remove

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Bugs item #312708, was opened at 2010-09-09 21:33
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody (None)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Useless kompare/cdiff completions - please remove 
Distribution: --Distribution-Agnostic--
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
Status: None
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
Anonymous message posted by reavertm at gentoo.org

Please consider reverting bc6f14445f26043c1c89cbb25caebe394fb7b03b

http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=bc6f14445f26043c1c89cbb25caebe394fb7b03b

Rationale:
Completion accepts only .diff/.patch files while main feature of kompare is to show differences between URLs. Therefore bash-completion makes it considerably less convenient to use kompare as it disallows completion on local files. Which defeats its purpose.


$ kompare --help
Usage: kompare [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] [URL1 [URL2]] - 

A program to view the differences between files and optionally generate a diff

Options:
  -c                        This will compare URL1 with URL2
  -o                        This will open URL1 and expect it to be diff output. URL1 can also be a '-' and then it will read from standard input. Can be used for instance for cvs diff | kompare -o -. Kompare will do a check to see if it can find the original file(s) and then blend the original file(s) into the diffoutput and show that in the viewer. -n disables the check.
  -b                        This will blend URL2 into URL1, URL2 is expected to be diff output and URL1 the file or folder that the diffoutput needs to be blended into. 
  -n                        Disables the check for automatically finding the original file(s) when using '-' as URL with the -o option.
  -e <encoding>             Use this to specify the encoding when calling it from the command line. It will default to the local encoding if not specified.

Arguments:
  URL1 [URL2]               
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