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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:07 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: bash completion failures
On 15 Dec, 2012, at 19:48 , magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 Dec, 2012, at 19:33 , magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15 Dec, 2012, at 13:44 , Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/15/2012 01:20 PM, magnum wrote:
>>>> No hidden options work, other things work correctly. If I just write "../run/john --[tab][tab]" I also get a list lacking the hiddens.
>>>
>>> Now I am able to reproduce.
>>>
>>> I always started john from the run directory and used ./john.
>>> If I move to the src directory and use ../run/john, completion for
>>> hidden options doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Now I found the culprit in line 142 of the script.
>>> Here I concatenate the options from the regular usage output and the
>>> output of --list=hidden-options.
>>> But instead of the name that is used to invoke john, I use "./john" for
>>> --list=hidden-options.
>>> This needs to be replaced by ${first}
>>> Otherwise completion only works as long as you are in the run directory
>>> and as long as the binary is called john.
>>>
>>> Feel free to correct this or wait until I submit a patch.
>>
>> Great, I'll fix it.
>
> Done. Now there is another little problem:
>
> ../run/john --mem[tab]
>
> expands to
>
> ../run/john --mem-file-size=_
>
> where '_' is a space. So to fill in the number I'll need to backspace first. This seems to happen with all hidden options but not the other ones.
For the record, this is fixed now.
And for the record Frank, I really can't express how much I appreciate the bash completion. I love it so much I feel silly about it. Or, as my daughter would put it, <3 (which btw is something one should consider in rules).
magnum
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