Adrian Riskin 

Inspired by a very insightful post by @dlakelan I'm finally getting around to asking about a CLI issue I'm having.

Apparently xmms2 doesn't have tab completion out of the box. My distro is Mint 22.1. So far I figured out that I need to add a text file for it to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/. Weirdly there's already one for regular xmms. So I found one at:

https://gist.github.com/ektich/3702fd8206e3a5ba6aff14566032d6e9

And added it to the directory but still no luck. I feel like I'm missing something basic but what is it??

#Linux #xmms2 #BashCompletion #BASH #CLI

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116275965540442423

Mar 23 at 2:12amWeb
Show threadDaniel Lakeland1d ago

@AdrianRiskin

Instead of sticking it in /usr/share... try doing this to make a completions dir in your home dir (read down a couple pages)

https://serverfault.com/questions/506612/standard-place-for-user-defined-bash-completion-d-scripts

Standard place for user defined bash_completion.d scripts?

I have user access (no root) into a Linux (Suse) machine where I developed some bash scripts and the corresponding bash autocompletion rules. Since the scripts belong only to my user and therefore I

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Show threadAdrian Riskin 1d ago
@dlakelan thank you, this looks promising! I will give it a try tomorrow and report back.