bash-completion:master
has fixes for TAB-completion breakage when using shopt -s failglob
(helpful with shopt -s dotglob
).
$ ls -l bash: no match: words[0]=${!ref}${COMP_WORDS[i]}
Unfortunately, Homebrew's bash-completion will always use version 1.3, pinned because of OSX pinning to bash 3.2.x. Also, the homebrew-version/bash-completion2 package is 2.1, which is very old.
So, let's quickly install bash-completion from source until we have time to fix homebrew.
# bash-completion release tarballs include a ./configure; the git repo does not, so we'll need to create one.
brew install autoconf automake
# bash-completion can use BSD (MacOS) awk, but prefers GNU awk.
brew install gawk
# Obtain and build.
git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/bash-completion/bash-completion.git && cd bash-completion
# Avoid AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE undefined macro error.
autoreconf -vfi
./configure # --prefix=/path/to/your/source/software
make
# Sanity check the install.
make -n install
# If ok, install.
make install
Adjust your rc/startup files as necessary.
Merge homebrew/homebrew-versions/bash-completion2
and homebrew/bash-completion
providing stable
(or a better name such as legacy
) (1.3) and head
(master). bash-completion2 can disappear -- anyone using it is likely using new bash (>4) and really just wants a newer (latest?) version of bash-completion, not specifically 2.1.