On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:37AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/28/2012 03:28 AM, gt wrote: > >What would you recommend instead? I too face problems time and again > >with bash-completion and would like to get rid of it. Do you have some > >special settings in your .bashrc? > > No, just get rid of it. Your local bash completion will continue to > work just fine without the 'bash_completion' package. I have had > nothing but strange prompt issues with the package so I just finally > removed it completely. Now completion and prompts work normal again > -- in all situations. Thanks i guess i'll remove it then. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:19:45PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: > AFAIK, the bash_completion script that is installed with the bash-completion > package merely is a latch script where all other software's completion routines > are sourced from '/etc/bash_completion.d'. You're free to source or not source > whatever you want from that directory without the latch script installed, since > it's your system/cpu time. The dependencies arising from that can be made > flexible by wrapping the source with a test -f each time. That would leave you > with a few additional lines in your ~/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc, while > keeping out the bloated mess that is bash_completion. > See also, /etc/bash.bashrc line 23 Thanks for the explanation, i'll take a look. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
