[HN Gopher] Bash's sadly flawed smart (programmable) completion
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       Bash's sadly flawed smart (programmable) completion
        
       Author : soraminazuki
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2024-04-10 16:22 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | soraminazuki wrote:
       | I wonder what the author thinks of zsh. Unlike bash, zsh
       | completion just works. It's context-aware, properly completes
       | subcommands and options, and doesn't suffer from the problem
       | explained in the article. It even shows descriptions for each of
       | the completion candidates.
       | 
       | In contrast, bash almost always falls back to filename completion
       | for the most common commands even when third party frameworks
       | like bash-completion are installed. It's frustrating when I have
       | to deal with interactive bash sessions because, _sigh_ , Docker.
        
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