Currently, "gio list file:///h<tab>" doesn't complete "file:///home"
because the result of "dirname file:///h" is not "file:///" but "file:/",
which breaks the consequent logic. Let's subtract basename from the
path in order to workaround this issue.
None of these files starts with a #! line, and they are not native
binary executables, so if a user attempts to execute them as a program,
Unix shells will run them as /bin/sh scripts. This is not going to end
well, since none of them are shell scripts (the gio bash completion
is for bash, which is not a lowest-common-denominator POSIX shell, and
in any case is designed to be sourced rather than executed).
Fixes: #1539
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
GVfs utils used to have bash completion, which was pretty useful. However,
it hasn't been ported to gio tool unfortunately. GLib provides completion
for various utils already, so it would be nice to provide completion also
for gio tool. I've updated old bash completion code and merged with some
my old unmerged fixes.
The gvfs completion used "gvfs-ls --show-completions" helper. This mentioned
option hasn't been obviously ported to "gio list" and the proposed completion
doesn't add this option in "gio list" to not pollute the codes, but maybe it
is a bit slower as consequence.
The proposed bash completion suggests subcommands, uris and paths including
the remote mounts. It contains some workarounds, especially because of proper
handling of paths with colons and other special chars (like spaces)...
This is essentially a commandline implementation of the client-side of
the org.freedesktop.Application D-Bus interface.
It includes support for tab-completion based on desktop files and their
contents.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704218
The bash-completion code nowadays expects completion files to
be installed in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions, and
expects them to be named like the command they are completing
for.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677782
