[PATCH] ash: perform autocompletion on builtin commands

[John Spencer]

Sven-Göran Bergh wrote:
> Just source /etc/bash_completion in either .bashrc or .profile.

what would be the contents of this file, that make expansion of the 
tilde work ?  /etc/bash_completion is not installed on my box.

(just to make sure we're talking about the same thing:
$ ls ~/.s<TAB> should expand to ~/.ssh/ or /home/user/.ssh, but doesn't)

while we're at it, the other autocompletion thing ash doesn't support 
out-of-the-box is expansion of directories in the first position on the 
actual line.
for example i want to run utils/foo.sh
$ u<TAB>
doesn't expand to utils/, whereas
$ ./u<TAB>
does.
would be nice if this could be enabled using some trick.


> ash will pick it up and use it in the same way as bash.
> Have never had any problem with this. Works like a charm.
> 
> Brgds
> /S-G
> 
> On 10/24/2014 05:20 PM, John Spencer wrote:
>> Matteo Croce wrote:
>>> Refactor read_line_input to accept a list of strings which are
>>> added byt the autocompletion suggestions.
>>> Let ash pass the builtin command list to read_line_input to enable
>>> completion of builtin commands as echo, printf, history, exec, etc.
>>
>> nice. could this mechanism be used to expand ~ to the contents of $HOME
>> for autocompletion ? lack of this expansion is currently my major
>> annoyance with ash and the reason i still use bash...
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