Bash Completion is missing its plug-ins

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue May 25 14:53:06 PDT 2004


In the last episode (May 24), Olivier Tharan said:
> * Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot at caraldi.com> (20040524 11:55):
> > About zsh, I have heard that there are a lot of completions
> > included, but how does it work?  Who maintains the completions
> > code?  Is it easier to write completions for zsh than bash?
> 
> It is all included in the shell, and the completion code is
> maintained by the authors.

Note that packages are free to install their own completion scripts
into /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions , which is one of the places
zsh looks for its completion functions.  Portupgrade does this, for
example.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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