When I followed these steps for "gv" aliasing "gvim" it did not work:
# Autocomplete made to work for alias gv="gvim"
# $ complete -p gvim
complete -o filenames -F _filedir_xspec gvim
....
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When I followed these steps for "gv" aliasing "gvim" it did not work:
# Autocomplete made to work for alias gv="gvim"
# $ complete -p gvim
complete -o filenames -F _filedir_xspec gvim
....