gksudo tab completion

[bacardiandwatermelon]

Hey,
When using tab completion it works for sudo but not gksudo. For instance.

sudo nau <tab>

Brings up sudo nautilus, but

gksudo nau <tab>

Brings up nothing. I guess it is something to do with bashrc but not too sure. Thanks in advance..

[Didius Falco]

Hi,

open up Synaptic and see what version of bash-completion you have, and see if it's upgradeable. Check and see if you have any available updates.

I found a bug report on it that says that this was fixed in version 1:1.0-2.

It's working fine in the Karmic Alpha...

Here is a link to the bug report, which also contains a patch for it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...on/+bug/239080

Regards,

Didius

PS Next time I'm in my Jaunty install, I'll try to remember to check it there and report back...

[Volt9000]

Where is the patch? All I see is the output of a diff command.

[bacardiandwatermelon]

Thanks for putting me in the right direction. It worked perfectly. I saved the patch below as patch.diff

diff -u /etc/bash_completion /tmp/buffer-content-66310Oi
--- /etc/bash_completion    2008-04-08 10:29:11.000000000 -0400
+++ /tmp/buffer-content-66310Oi    2008-06-10 14:39:20.000000000 -0400
@@ -3259,7 +3259,7 @@
 {
  PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin _command $1 $2 $3
 }
-complete -F _root_command $filenames sudo fakeroot really
+complete -F _root_command $filenames sudo fakeroot really gksudo
  # ant(1) completion
 #

and then patched it by running

sudo patch -p0 < patch.diff

Logged out and logged back in. Thanks again

[sisco311]

as a quick fix add

complete -cf gksu
complete -cf gksudo

to the .bashrc file

EDIT: too late

[Didius Falco]

Thanks for putting me in the right direction. It worked perfectly. I saved the patch below as patch.diff
<snip>
Logged out and logged back in. Thanks again

My pleasure!

I just hope Volt9000 sees it - I just got back to the PC and saw his post.

Regards,

Didius

[Volt9000]

Yes I saw it, thanks Didius!