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Implement argcomplete shell completion
While the previously implemented shtab completion is faster and more secure, it also requires installing a /etc/bash_completion.d/* for each tool or application. Alternatively, the completion provided by argcomplete requires installing only one /etc/bash_completion.d/* file, many distributions and OSes have packages that do the equivalent, and argcomplete itself provides a convenience script to install the file. From then on any python tool or application that implements argcomplete gets completion.
Confirm that shtab and argcomplete can co-exist and implement argcomplete also.
I would not consider this high priority. I only opened this issue because I ran my mouth in a comment on the shtab issue and a maintainer asked me to open one. These days, most of my use of reuse is integrated into build systems and CI and I can't even recall the last time I used it from an interactive shell. So, yeah, feel free to close this as not planned. I'm almost certainly not going to be submitting a PR for this. :-/
Can they be used in parallel?
I haven't implemented shtab so I can't say for sure, but from what I understand about how they work, there's no reason they should conflict.
Small correction - distributions usually don't install to /etc/bash_completion.d but to pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion aka /usr/share/bash-completion/completions.
That said, if you have a PR I would be quite happy to test the argcomplete approach.
distributions usually don't install to
/etc/bash_completion.d
Simplified for brevity. Without a package, the admin is dealing with that directory. With a package they don't need to care about how it's done. But sure, I'll update the wording.
Hi! This repository is being migrated away from GitHub towards Codeberg. More context can be found in #865. This issue can henceforth be found at https://codeberg.org/fsfe/reuse-tool/issues/1082. Any comments subsequent to this comment will not be migrated.
