bug#57673: [PATCH] Parse --help messages for pcomplete

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> IIUC this package is like Python's
> "native completion", i.e., it relies on sending "prefix\t\t" to the bash
> process and hopes readline will do its thing.

I see.

> Exploiting bash could work nicely if it had a
> please_complete_this_partial_command function, but this doesn't seem
> possible.  I might be wrong, though.

I wondered whether we could use those files more directly -- executing
them or something in the right context?  (Like I said, I know nothing
about how this works. 😀)