Bug 288368 – Programmable completion for mutt mailboxes under bash-4.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Drake Wyrm 2009-10-09 23:38:18 UTC]

Since upgrading to bash-4, I have noticed a bug while attempting to tab-complete mailboxes for mutt. When I type `mutt -f =<TAB><TAB>`, I get a list of mailboxes, as expected. But, when I start typing the name of a mailbox and try to expand, say `mutt -f =m<TAB><TAB>`, I get a list of usernames and aliases. I have a patch for /usr/share/bash-completion/base that makes completion work under bash-4, but I think the patch breaks completion under bash-3.

[Comment 1 Drake Wyrm 2009-10-09 23:49:28 UTC]

Created attachment 206595 [details, diff]
patch /usr/share/bash-completion/base for mutt to work with bash-4

[Comment 2 Drake Wyrm 2009-10-10 00:12:46 UTC]

Created attachment 206597 [details, diff]
patch /usr/share/bash-completion/base for mutt to work with bash-4, remix

The first patch may not have affected bash-3, but this one certainly won't.

[Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-10-29 03:01:00 UTC]

Drake, if you unpack the tarball, you will see a bash_completion file. This is the one that needs to be patched. Additionally, you need to confirm that it has not been fixed in 1.1 already.

Thanks.

[Comment 4 Drake Wyrm 2009-10-29 05:39:03 UTC]

Created attachment 208607 [details]
replacement mutt file

The bug has not been addressed in 1.1. This replacement mutt file contains the fix.

[Comment 5 Antek Grzymała (antoszka) 2009-12-15 09:42:48 UTC]

Please fix it. I've no idea about writing bash-completion functions (pretty bizarre stuff) functions, but I'm really missing the functionality.

[Comment 6 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-12-25 02:47:56 UTC]

https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=312184&group_id=100114&atid=413095

[Comment 7 Antek Grzymała (antoszka) 2009-12-28 19:49:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=208607) [details]
> replacement mutt file
> 
> The bug has not been addressed in 1.1. This replacement mutt file contains the
> fix.

Doesn't seem to work for me:

$ mutt -f =gent<TAB><TAB>oo/
CVS/ xml/ 

instead of, say =gentoo-dev...

[Comment 8 Patrice Clement 2015-08-24 15:53:34 UTC]

Is there someone still interested in this? Please comment or I will close this bug.

[Comment 9 Antek Grzymała (antoszka) 2015-08-24 16:25:10 UTC]

Feel free to close the bug, it's working now (I don't remember what has changed, but the bug is not valid anymore for sure).

[Comment 10 Patrice Clement 2015-08-28 12:53:26 UTC]

Alright. Thank you for the info!