bash-completion with pacman [split]

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-16 07:25:34

lessthanjake wrote:

Install extra/bash-completion and you get bashcompletion for pacman -S.

How does it work? i have installed it but pacman -S gnome-pane does not give gnome-panel

paranoos · 2006-03-16 09:18:04

Gandalf, after installing bash completion, I believe you have to edit your .bashrc to load it. Sorry, I don't remember how, I use zsh now

T-Dawg · 2006-03-16 10:24:30

I just opened up another terminal and it worked so I suppose export source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh should work to.
You have to give it a second because it takes time to read the database.

sh__ · 2006-03-16 10:39:27

Adding this to ~/.bashrc should work also:

. /etc/bash_completion

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-16 11:36:38

I added the . /etc/bash_completion but

[wael@nasreddine ~]$ pacman -S xorbash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long

:'(
while looking for xorg, i added xor<Tab> and that's what i got hmmm...

sebcactus · 2006-03-16 11:54:12

I have the same pb on my laptop, but not on my desktop. I don't know why.

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-16 11:56:50

I know why now, Actually i'm trying to do as regular user, as root it works fine, i can't do it even with prefixing it with sudo since the auto completion has not entered the sudo envirement yet (no Enter pressed)

T-Dawg · 2006-03-16 12:03:41

split

using sudo works fine for me. All I did was open up another terminal after installing it -no modifications to bashrc. Did you try sourcing as I described above?

sebcactus · 2006-03-16 13:33:46

_Gandalf_ wrote:

I know why now, Actually i'm trying to do as regular user, as root it works fine, i can't do it even with prefixing it with sudo since the auto completion has not entered the sudo envirement yet (no Enter pressed)

Well on my desktop I don't need to be root (and I don't see the point to be root if you are just looking for a package with -Ss)

Edit: The update of bash-completion seemed to fix everything

FrankTM · 2006-03-17 13:19:05

quite nice...

it doesnt get packages from custom repositories though
it would be nice to do a local scan on pacman or something to see what packages it can autocomplete
however that might be slowing the process down I guess, as every pacman update _could_ resolv in new available packages, not likely however

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#1 2006-03-16 07:25:34

bash-completion with pacman [split]

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Re: bash-completion with pacman [split]

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