437932 – app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp: bash 4 breaks versioned atom (=*) completions

Bug 437932 - app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp: bash 4 breaks versioned atom (=*) completions

Summary: app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp: bash 4 breaks versioned atom (=*) completions

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Shell Tools project

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Blocks:	431578
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Reported:	2012-10-11 04:15 UTC by Ryan Hill (RETIRED)
Modified:	2022-02-23 08:49 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-11 04:15:32 UTC

In bash 4 COMP_WORDBREAKS is defined as "'><=;|&(: which breaks completions with a package atom starting with =.  For example,

`equery files =app<tab>`

bash-3:
${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}="files"
${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}="=app"

bash-4:
${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}="="
${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}="app"

From what I understand, we should be able to use _get_comp_words_by_ref to work around this, but I'm having trouble finding good documentation.  See http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg146922.html for an example.