perl -d causes completion to fail

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 10/15/2014 11:47 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 04:22:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Now I did some Bash completion stuff before so I'm familiar but
>> where would I find which completion thing causes this to work but
>> only if -d was not specified?
>>
>> Specify some other Perl option (i.e. -v) and it WORKS!
>>
>> To recap: perl -d mysc<tab> does NOT complete to perl -d myscript.pl
>> but perl -v mysc<tab> does! That's just odd!
>
> This is all provided by the bash-completion package.  You should be able
> to download the source code using setup-*.exe as usual, or the specific
> script you're after is /etc/bash_completion.d/perl.
>
> The upstream release of bash-completion is v2.1; the official Cygwin
> version seems to be based on v1.3, so it could be that this is resolved
> in future releases.
>

Hmmm... seems my bash-completion and a few other things are old. Time to 
update.... (should have checked this first - sorry).
-- 
Andrew DeFaria
http://defaria.com


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