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Today I started to get annoyed when my bash completion code wasn't available upon my laptop.
To fix this I've created a simple Debian package called steve-completion - with the intention that I'll move all my custom completion code into it. This should make my environments more sane and uniform.
Right now I've just added support for completion of upload targets to dupload, and completion of the options for the pyzor package. Over the next few days I'll add my other code.
To avoid naming conflicts the files are named /etc/bash_completion.d/foo.steve. I dislike the Steve-suffix, but I dont want to trample on files which may be made available by package maintainers. (Assuming I get round to filing wishlist bugs.)
This is comparible to the steve-base virtual package I made/use which exists solely as a package to pull in dependencies such as screen, sudo, etc. (These are packages which I miss when they are not available.)
I wonder how many other people have similar packages? I know I got the idea from mdz ..
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Note to self: Post something about wildcard dns + intelligent redirection?
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I had a similar need: I was tired of moving to a new job (which happened far too often in the bad-old days after the crash a few years ago!), and finding myself staring at an empty computer, without all my favorite scripts and configurations.
I solved the problem by creating a SVN repository on my server at home, and putting everything in there.
But this idea of creating an actual Debian package is even more cool. That way you can have the installation of all of the pieces taken care of more automatically.
Thanks for sharing that idea!
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I've got a note on my scratchpad (and I'll probably blog on it once the idea is more fully formed) on what I'm thinking of.
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If you've read the two part guide by bdf then you should understand the simple package I made easily.
The code is in CVS as mentioned above and provided you have the required packages installed (dpkg-dev, fakeroot, and devscripts) you should be able to build a package of the code by simply typing "make package", or "debuild".
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Thanks for the suggestion, you're not alone in saying that zsh has better completion than bash.
To be honest I'm unlikely to switch shells since I'm very comfortable with Bash - and it is available on all the systems I use without any extra installation.
When it comes to completion there are many local scripts that I wish to add support for, so even if I did switch to zsh I would need to centralise my completion-additions.
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