Bug#126039: ITP: bash-completion -- bash programmable completion

[seb@sjgross.org (Sebastien J. Gross)]

Sebastien J. Gross <sjg@debian.org> writes:

I wonder if Matthias Klose would include it into bash package?

> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-21
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : bash-completion
>   Version         : 20011220 
>   Upstream Author : Ian Macdonald <mailto:ian@caliban.org>
> * URL             : http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml 
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : bash programmable completion
> 
> A relatively new feature in bash is programmable completion, which
> has been available since the beta version of 2.04. Programmable
> completion will be familiar to you if you are a zsh user. It also
> exists, albeit in a much less usable form, in tcsh.

-- 
Sebastien J. Gross - web: http://www.sjgross.org

Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you
into super-edit-debug-compile mode?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands,
especially Emacs.)