Share your pkg aliases

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For pkg 1.5.0 we do plan to provide a default pkg.conf full of useful
> > aliases,
> > of course this is subjective, if you think you have added some useful
> > aliases
> > into your pkg.conf please share those so we can add them directly into
> the
> > next
> > release.
> >
>
> I notice that there is a /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/_pkg.bash file
> which implements tab completion
> for pkg commands.  Is there a way to make this file get picked up
> by default when ports-mgmt/pkg is installed,
> instead of having to edit .bashrc?
>
> It's a minor thing, but tab completions are really nice for usability.
> bash shell users can use this, but zsh also has a way to read bash
> completion scripts.
>
> --
> Craig
>

And I  keep meaning to write a tcsh completion script for pkg. Maybe I'll
get to at least a basic one next week. I see that bash completion scripts
are quite different, but I'll see if the _pkg.bash file can at least get me
started. It does more than I'd probably get done in the first pass.
--
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com