auto complete

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Tue Apr 14 14:41:18 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:24:20PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 13:05, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
>
>> 2009/4/14 Joshua Root wrote
>>
>>> S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
>>>
>>> > after upgrade to macport 1.7, command autocomplete not working  
>>> anymore
>>> > in terminal. any idea how to fix it ?
>>>
>>> If you're talking about interactive mode, readline support is not
>>> enabled when selfupdating to a new version, see
>>> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19035> and
>>> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/10651>.
>>>
>>> You can get it back by installing from the dmg, or by building from
>>> source manually and passing --enable-readline to configure.
>>>
>>> If you mean port command completion in bash via the bash-completion
>>> port, I don't know why it would have stopped working.
>>
>> yea, it's  bash-completion . i don't want to reinstall all the ports 
>> again ( i use lot's of ports).
>>
>> any way to just reinstall the macport with bash-completion ?
>
> You don't need to install any ports again. Just install MacPorts again 
> from the 1.7.0 dmg. It will not overwrite any of your ports.

Or even the 1.7.1 DMG, then the selfupdate which happens post-install won't
re-break readline support...

Bryan



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