[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.
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| 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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