[systemd-devel] bash autocompletion

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 05.09.10 07:40, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> 2010/9/5 Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>:
> > On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 06:53:25AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> attached is a first stab at bash completion support for systemctl.
> >> You need to have the bash-completion package installed (on Debian:
> >> apt-get install bash-completion), then simply copy the file to
> >> /etc/bash_completion.d/
> >> and either source /etc/bash_completion or only /etc/bash_completion.d/systemctl.
> >> It's still a bit rough and incomplete, but I thought I'd share it anyway.
> >> Comments and improvements/patches most welcome.
> >
> > Cool, I'll take a look. This has been on my todo list but I haven't gotten
> > to it yet.
> 
> Just noticed, that I should use systemctl --full, so I don't get
> shortened service names.
> 
> systemctl --help shows me "--full          Don't ellipsize unit names on output"
> 
> I'm not a native speaker, but the term "ellipsize" is imho a bit
> confusing. Maybe "shorten" is better?

gtk/Pango calls this "ellipsize", so I figured I reuse the term here.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-ellipsize

Lennart

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