Re: TAB completion after "nice"

[Chet Ramey]

> "Peter D." <psd@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> > Almost does what I want.
> 
> If the built-in facilities aren't quite right for your situation, you
> could try making a shell function for use with complete -F to
> fine-tune.  I don't have any experience with that myself; in
> particular, I don't know how to produce different completions for the
> first argument than for later arguments (or whether it's possible).

It's possible.  That's the function of the COMP_WORDS array and the 
COMP_CWORD index variable.

You should poke around and look for Ian Macdonald's slick `bash_complete'
package.  He has done much of the work for you -- in fact, his package
provides a completion function for `nice'.

Start with http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml#completion.

Chet

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