Re: [Help-bash] Command completion for an alias

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On 2015-05-30 19:01, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:15:45PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> >
> > My .bashrc defines some aliases like alias gs='git status'. I'd like 
> > to
> > enable command completion for aliases so that when the command line is 
> > (| is
> > the cursor):
>
> Bash provides the completion's mechanism, but the actual code that 
> knows how to
> complete certain commands is external. The most common package 
> providing these
> is bash-completion (https://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/).
>
> There is a fundamental problem with what you request though. Alias are 
> simple
> text substitutions that can expand to anything. If you have:
>
> sc=status
> alias gs='git "$sc"'
>
> Then, is this new feature that you propose supposed to somehow evaluate 
> the
> code and determine that you're completing 'git status'?

That'd be nice but I had something different in mind. Is there a 
function, let's call it completions, working like this:

completions git status # => returns the completions for "git status |"
completions git branch -d # => returns the completions for "git branch 
-d |"

Best regards
--
Greg Navis