Bash completion should add a space after <Tab> key.

[ghost]

If compared to the Git's completion. You see it adds a space after it have completed the suggestions. Where the Homebrew require the users to press space after a press.

Tried to look up a solution, but since my experience with bash-completion is quite low, I were unavailable to come up with a proper solution.

What are your ideas on the matter?

[adamv]

I'm not a Bash / completion expert either; but I think there are some switches that can be used to set this option so I'll look into it, thanks for the report.

[adamv]

Can you give a specific example where a space ins't added?

For instance:
brew install mysql
doesn't add a space, as there are multiple formulae with that prefix, so tab-tab will list them.

[ghost]

After the first argument.

$ brew in< Tab> => $ brew install

$ git ad< Tab> => $ git add_
(Where the underscore is a space.

[adamv]

There is more than one "in" command: install and info. Which is kind of unfortunate. But this behavior is "as expected"; if you "brew ins" then a space is added.

[ghost]

Bad example on my part. This is the case with the other arguments as well.

I just tried $ brew ins< Tab> but still no space. Same with dirty and info.

I've installed the bash-completion from source. But the reason I did so, where because Homebrew acted this way. I have recently reset med Homebrew tree. Which should make sure I have the latest version of the brew completion file.

[ghost]

Looking really hard into this now. But there isn't really any good information on the topic. I've been looking a lot on existing examples. But to no help. There seems to be tons of ways to do it. Since it's basically based on BASH, it seems that I need to learn more about the basic of BASH to grasp the concept completely.

I'll keep you posted :)

[jacknagel]

Forgive me for asking a dumb question but is the issue still that brew ins<Tab> doesn't add a trailing space? I can't reproduce that.

[ghost]

I can't seem to get the space at the end, so that I can start directly to type the wanted formula name.

[ghost]

I get the space, maybe a terminal emulator problem?

[ghost]

I'm using xterm-new with iTerm2. Will test de others in a bit. I also had the same problem with xterm-256color.