Homepage: http://www.fvue.nl/wiki/Bash_completion_library
This project splits the bash completion package of Ian Macdonald (see: http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml#completion) into multiple files.
The objectives of this project are that bash completion:
- should load faster
- should consume less memory
- should have an open development environment
- should have automated tests
Should load faster
Bash-completion-lib loads 10 times faster as does the single file bash completion package.
Should consume less memory
Completion functions are loaded run-time for only those commands you actually complete - the moment you press TAB. After the first completion, the completion function is installed and stays in memory for fast subsequent completions.
Should have an open development environment
http://code.google.com/p/bash-completion-lib/
Should have automated tests
DejaGnu is used to run automated tests.
Roadmap
GOALS REALISATION
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(1) Improve bash-completion-20060301: bash_completion_lib-1.3.1:
| - improve initial loading speed - loads 10x faster
| - improve completions - contains fixes of 20060301-debian4
| - contains fixes of 20060301-ubuntu1
| - split completions into separate files - split into 543 files for 609 completions
| - add testsuite - contains a DejaGnu testsuite with > 1200 tests
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(2) Patch bash, so that real dynamic loading - bash-4.0 contains a `compopt' builtin
| becomes possible: - Fedora has patched bash-3 with a catch-all
| - add `complete-not-found' handler to bash programmable completion handler
| - add `compset' bash builtin
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(3) Improve bash-completion to do real --
dynamic loading
