# shellcheck shell=bash about-plugin 'Automatic completion of aliases' # Load after the other completions to understand what needs to be completed # BASH_IT_LOAD_PRIORITY: 800 # References: # http://superuser.com/a/437508/119764 # http://stackoverflow.com/a/1793178/1228454 # Automatically add completion for all aliases to commands having completion functions function alias_completion() { local namespace="alias_completion" local tmp_file completion_loader alias_name line completions local alias_arg_words new_completion compl_func compl_wrapper alias_defn # create array of function completion triggers, keeping multi-word triggers together IFS=$'\n' read -d '' -ra completions < <(complete -p) ((${#completions[@]} == 0)) && return 0 completions=("${completions[@]##complete -* * -}") # strip all but last option plus trigger(s) completions=("${completions[@]#complete -}") # strip anything missed completions=("${completions[@]#? * }") # strip last option and arg, leaving only trigger(s) # create temporary file for wrapper functions and completions tmp_file="$(mktemp -t "${namespace}-${RANDOM}XXXXXX")" || return 1 completion_loader="$(complete -p -D 2> /dev/null | sed -Ene 's/.* -F ([^ ]*).*/\1/p')" # read in " '' ''" lines from defined aliases # some aliases do have backslashes that needs to be interpreted # shellcheck disable=SC2162 while read line; do line="${line#alias }" alias_name="${line%%=*}" alias_defn="${line#*=}" # alias definition alias_cmd="${alias_defn%%[[:space:]]*}" # first word of alias alias_cmd="${alias_cmd:1}" # lose opening quotation mark alias_args="${alias_defn#*[[:space:]]}" # everything after first word alias_args="${alias_args%\'}" # lose ending quotation mark # skip aliases to pipes, boolean control structures and other command lists [[ "${alias_args}" =~ [\|\&\;\)\(\n] ]] && continue # avoid expanding wildcards read -a alias_arg_words <<< "$alias_args" # skip alias if there is no completion function triggered by the aliased command if ! _bash-it-array-contains-element "$alias_cmd" "${completions[@]}"; then if [[ -n "$completion_loader" ]]; then # force loading of completions for the aliased command "${completion_loader:?}" "${alias_cmd}" # 124 means completion loader was successful [[ $? -eq 124 ]] || continue completions+=("$alias_cmd") else continue fi fi new_completion="$(complete -p "$alias_cmd" 2> /dev/null)" # create a wrapper inserting the alias arguments if any if [[ -n $alias_args ]]; then compl_func="${new_completion/#* -F /}" compl_func="${compl_func%% *}" # avoid recursive call loops by ignoring our own functions if [[ "${compl_func#_"$namespace"::}" == "$compl_func" ]]; then compl_wrapper="_${namespace}::${alias_name}" echo "function $compl_wrapper { local compl_word=\$2 local prec_word=\$3 # check if prec_word is the alias itself. if so, replace it # with the last word in the unaliased form, i.e., # alias_cmd + ' ' + alias_args. if [[ \$COMP_LINE == \"\$prec_word \$compl_word\" ]]; then prec_word='$alias_cmd $alias_args' prec_word=\${prec_word#* } fi (( COMP_CWORD += ${#alias_arg_words[@]} )) COMP_WORDS=($alias_cmd $alias_args \${COMP_WORDS[@]:1}) (( COMP_POINT -= \${#COMP_LINE} )) COMP_LINE=\${COMP_LINE/$alias_name/$alias_cmd $alias_args} (( COMP_POINT += \${#COMP_LINE} )) $compl_func \"$alias_cmd\" \"\$compl_word\" \"\$prec_word\" }" >> "$tmp_file" new_completion="${new_completion/ -F $compl_func / -F $compl_wrapper }" fi fi # replace completion trigger by alias if [[ -n $new_completion ]]; then new_completion="${new_completion% *} $alias_name" echo "$new_completion" >> "$tmp_file" fi done < <(alias -p) # shellcheck source=/dev/null source "$tmp_file" && command rm -f "$tmp_file" } alias_completion