[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][311392] DBTS 489258: ssh completion only looks for executables

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Bugs item #311392, was changed at 2009-01-30 10:47 by Ville Skyttä
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: David Paleino (hanska-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: DBTS 489258: ssh completion only looks for executables  
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: Debian BTS
Milestone: None
Status: None
Original bug number: 489258


Initial Comment:
Asking for completion on "ssh user at host tar -zxf " looks for executables
in the path: looks like the ssh rule is not flexible enough to be useful
here.  Not sure it is feasible (or even that it would generally make
sense) to attempt getting a completion from a remote bash ?

At the very least, it would be no less useful, but less expensive, to
fallback to file completion.


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>Comment By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2011-12-20 00:52

Message:
Well, we do complete remote filenames for scp and friends so that can of worms is kind of open already.  Doing remote command lookup would be somewhat messier but doable anyway.  On the other hand no objections if this is closed wontfix - we have to draw the line somewhere...

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Comment By: Igor Murzov (garik-guest)
Date: 2011-12-19 20:18

Message:
How this supposed to work? i'm not sure bash-completion should login to the remote host and fetch some information from there. I think this bug should be closed as "won't fix".

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