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Re: not autocompleting





On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/06/12 17:05, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:16:51 +0100, mk bane wrote:

A while ago I upgraded to Squeeze.
I've noticed filename completion does not appear to work for some
commands, such as oocalc.
Anybody point me the direction of a solution? Thanks,

Is it only failing for a specific set of filenames (OOo)?

If so, there has to be a file at "/etc/bash_completion.d/ooffice.sh" for
that purpose, installed by "openoffice.org-common" package.



That file exists, yes 

Otherwise, if completion is not working at all, chances are that during upgrade your /etc/bash.bashrc was overwritten/changed so that the completion part was commented out (I think that is the default on vanilla installs?).
Have a look at /etc/bash.bashrc and search for a comment:

# enable bash completion in interactive shells

and uncomment the lines just after it.

That does appear to be anywhere but if I source it I still have the problem.

Clarification of the problem: if I do 
 ls .per<TAB> 
it completes the directory (.personal)
but if I try
 oocalc .per<TAB>
it doesn't complete.
If I try other commands, eg 
  emacs .per<TAB>
they seem to complete okay

Thanks, M 


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