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Copyright (C) 2010 Canonical Ltd
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This file is part of Breezy.
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Breezy is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the
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License, or (at your option) any later version.
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Breezy is distributed in the hope that it will be
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useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
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of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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bash-completion plugin
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This plugin generates a shell function which can be used by bash to
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automatically complete the currently typed command when the user
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presses the completion key (usually tab).
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It is intended as a Breezy plugin, but can be used to some extend as a
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standalone python script as well.
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| Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Canonical Ltd
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Bundled and standalone versions
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This plugin has been merged_ into the main source tree of Breezy.
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Starting with the brz 2.3 series, a common brz installation will
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This is the preferred method of generating the completion function, as
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it will ensure proper brz initialization.
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eval "`brz bash-completion`"
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Running the above command automatically from your ``~/.bashrc`` file
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or similar can cause annoying delays in the startup of your shell.
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To avoid this problem, you can delay the generation of the completion
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function until you actually need it.
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To do so, source the file ``contrib/bash/brz`` shipped with the brz
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source distribution from your ``~/.bashrc`` file
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or add it to your ``~/.bash_completion`` if
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your setup uses such a file. On a system-wide installation, the
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directory ``/usr/share/bash-completion/`` might contain such bash
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Note that the full completion function is generated only once per
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shell session. If you update your brz installation or change the set
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of installed plugins, then you might wish to regenerate the completion
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function manually as described above in order for completion to take
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these changes into account.
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The plugin is designed to generate a completion function
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containing all the required information about the possible
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completions. This is usually only done once when bash
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initializes. After that, no more invocations of brz are required. This
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makes the function much faster than a possible implementation talking
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to brz for each and every completion. On the other hand, this has the
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effect that updates to brz or its plugins won't show up in the
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completions immediately, but only after the completion function has
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As this is built upon a bash completion script originally included in
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the brz source tree, and as the brz sources are covered by the GPL 2,
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this plugin here is licensed under these same terms.
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If you require a more liberal license, you'll have to contact all
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those who contributed code to this plugin, be it for bash or for
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The plugin was created by Martin von Gagern in 2009, building on a
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static completion function of very limited scope distributed together
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A version of it was merged into the brz source tree in May 2010.
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