Bugzilla Bug 91060

Aaron: I've seen your blog entry about the empty TODO, so here is one item you
can add.

"equery files" has an option which doesn't appear in bash completion:
"--filter=...".  For instance, "equery files --filter=doc,man,info bash" will
list all bash documentation files.  See "equery files --help" for the complete
synopsis.

Oh, and btw, completion for "equery <some_command> --" could also list
"--help".

Committed upstream.  Unfortunately, there's not an easy way to complete on
--flag=arg1,arg2 type stuff, but it at least now completes on --filter=.

--help has been added to each subcommand.

Will be FIXED next release.

I've written a function that does completion of "item1<sep>item2<sep>..."
lists. Could you point me to the CVS repository of gentoo-bashcomp so that i
try to integrate it with your latest update, because i couldn't its location on
the CVS web interface (or maybe it's not there?).

Thanks.

> Could you point me to the CVS repository of gentoo-bashcomp

Oh, ok, it's on BerliOS. Sorry for the stupid question.

It seems that your update adding --help and --filter= is actually not yet on
the BerliOS SVN repository, so i will attach the helper function i've wrote and
let you integrate it in equery completion code (if you agree sure).

Basically, it would be something like that: when ${cur} matches --filter=*,
then
COMPREPLY=($(_list_compgen "${cur#--filter=}" , \
        dir,obj,sym,dev,fifo,path,conf,cmd,doc,man,info))

I'm not quite sure how readable was the _list_compgen() code, so i've added
verbose comments to make it clear (feel free to remove them if that's much...).
It's pure bash, and i think i've not used anything specific to version 3.

Created an attachment (id=57921) [edit]
list_completion.sh

ack.  guess it'd help if I actually committed it :)

Created an attachment (id=57950) [edit]
equery_files_filter_completion.patch

Here is a patch that adds the list completion function and uses it for
--filter=<list>. It's against current trunk version (49).

20050506 is in CVS.  Awesome job on the function.
I hadn't yet figured out how to do that yet :)

> Awesome job on the function.

Thanks. /me too gets bored at work sometime :)