i think that having bashcomp on eix as for options as for ebuilds' category/names would be a great thing (if it is possible ^^') and many many compliments to eix's author.. that's a great app ;-))) Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce:
app-shells/zsh-completion has functions for eix completion. I suggest that you use zsh instead of bash as an interactive shell ;) At least, I will not spend time to write a completion function for a shell which lacks too many interactive features anyway... I would close the bug as WORKSFORME :) but if somebody else really wants to waste his time he might take the bug. However, bash-only functions will not go into eix upstream.
(In reply to comment #1) > However, bash-only functions will not go into eix upstream. That's an aggressive stance. But it can still go into the Gentoo tree if someone cares to spend time on it. :)
(In reply to comment #2) > That's an aggressive stance. You are right, I shouldn't have said this. However, I really do not want to maintain things which I am not using and which actually I consider a bad idea to use: As an interactive shell, zsh is so much superior over bash that there really is no point in using bash interactively. However, if somebody really wants to spend his time and writes bash-completion, I might also include it in the tarball, but I will probably not maintain it (e.g. when new options are added to eix, I will probably not update it myself [except perhaps in very simple cases]).
Created attachment 286121 [details] eix bash completion I received the attached suggest completion file from Marcel Philipp Partap. Although I am not happy about it since it provides only rudimentary completion support, I will release it with next eix if nobody sends me a better file...
+*eix-0.23.1 (13 Sep 2011) + + 13 Sep 2011; Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org> -eix-0.23.0.ebuild, + +eix-0.23.1.ebuild: + Version bump from upstream to fix bugs 382539 & 304819
