Re: Enable compgen even when programmable completions are not available?

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/25/23 2:38 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> compgen is a useful builtin for inspecting information about the shell
> context e.g. in scripts -- a good example of this is compgen -A function
> or compgen -A variable.
>
> But it's not always available depending on how bash is built, which
> results in people lacking confidence that it can / should be used in
> scripts. See e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/909148

It's dependent on programmable completion and readline, which are features
that are enabled by default. Who builds a version of bash with those turned
off? What's the rationale for doing that?

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