auto complete

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Apr 14 19:58:12 PDT 2009


Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> 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...

Will that fix bash-completion? How?

- Josh


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