Why does it work even after removing the binary?

[maniac-en]

Hi,

I installed cod by building it using go build. It was working fine for me, I just wanted to try the software, and so for uninstalling, I removed:

• the associated sym-link I made for it to be called in $PATH
• source command in my .bashrc
• cod directory that I cloned and built
• ~/.local/share/cod

But for some reason, it's still shows the args on pressing tab, even though the binary cod itself is removed. For the trial, I used it on fdfind command and below is the output for above scenario. Also, I'd like to point out, I don't have any cod folder in $HOME/.config.

How can I get back my normal commands tab-completion?

[dim-an]

Hey!

1. To disable cod it's enough to remove init line (source <(cod init $$ ...)) from your .bashrc / .zshrc. Once you did it new instances of shell will not use cod.

2. It's strange to hear that once you removed cod from $PATH it continued to provide completions since running cod binary is required to get completions. Are you sure you removed all instances? Maybe some instance remained in ~/go/bin/? What is the output of which cod?

3. I also would like to mention that if you somewhat liked cod but don't want it to learn you programs in /usr/bin you can create config file for this purpose. Example of my own configuration is here:

   
   » cat ~/.config/cod/config.toml 
   # ...

[[rule]] executable = "/usr/bin/*" policy = 'ignore'

[[rule]] executable = "arc" policy = 'ignore'

[[rule]] executable = "~/bin/*" policy = 'trust'

4. You can also remove learned completions for `fdfind` using `cod remove fdfind` it should get your completions back without need of removing `cod`.

[maniac-en]

Hi, Thanks for your reply!

• Like I said, I already removed the init line from my .bashrc but it's still giving suggestions.

• I can assure you that there are no instances of cod in my path. Infact when I run cod, it gives me following output:

  
  ~ ➜  cod
  Command 'cod' not found, did you mean:
  
  command 'co' from deb rcs (5.9.4-6)
  command 'coz' from deb coz-profiler (0.1.0-2ubuntu3)
  command 'cdo' from deb cdo (1.9.9~rc1-1)
  command 'cog' from deb cog (0.4.0-2)
  command 'mod' from deb monodoc-base (6.8.0.105+dfsg-2)
  command 'cow' from deb fl-cow (0.6-4.2)
  command 'god' from deb ruby-god (0.13.7-3build1)
  command 'od' from deb coreutils (8.30-3ubuntu2)
  command 'col' from deb bsdmainutils (11.1.2ubuntu3)

Try: sudo apt install

- `which cod` gives me no output
- I think `cod` binary itself is definitely not running but it somehow boinked my original commands I made it learn! (`fdfind` and `ripgrep`)
- I tried re-installing the effected commands as follows but the issues still persists!
```bash
sudo apt remove --purge fd-find ripgrep
sudo apt install fd-find ripgrep

• I even tried the trivial solution of restarting but no luck :(

[dim-an]

cod doesn't modify any shell files and once you have removed source <(cod init $$ bash) from .bashrc it doesn't affect completion in any way.

[dim-an]

You use bash, don't you?

Can you show output of complete -p?

[maniac-en]

complete -p

complete -F _fzf_path_completion mv
complete -F _root_command gksudo
complete -F _command nice
complete -F _longopt tr
complete -o bashdefault -o default -F _fzf_path_completion diff3
complete -F _fzf_path_completion head
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complete -F _fzf_path_completion wc
complete -o bashdefault -o default -F _fzf_path_completion gzip
complete -F _root_command fakeroot
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complete -F _fzf_dir_completion rmdir
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complete -F _apport-collect apport-collect
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complete -o bashdefault -o default -F _fzf_path_completion more
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complete -F _service /etc/init.d/lvm2-lvmpolld
complete -F _command command
complete -o default -F _fzf_opts_completion fzf
complete -F _longopt sha384sum
complete -F _known_hosts fping6
complete -F _fzf_path_completion rm
complete -F _service /etc/init.d/binfmt-support
complete -F _service /etc/init.d/mono-xsp4

[dim-an]

I can't see any cod related stuff in this output. Examples of cod related stuff from my environment

> complete -p | grep _cod
complete -o bashdefault -o filenames -F __cod_complete_bash yt
complete -o bashdefault -o filenames -F __cod_complete_bash rsync
complete -o bashdefault -o filenames -F __cod_complete_bash du
complete -o bashdefault -o filenames -F __cod_complete_bash unittester-client
...

I cannot say how did your completion work before you had installed cod. But I would suggest you to check out this official instruction form rg authors and try it.

[maniac-en]

Thanks for you help, I was able to solve my problems by building fd-find and ripgrep from source! Official instructions on either of the repo's weren't helpful for me!

[dim-an]

Glad you solved your issue.

If you ever decide to try cod again and find a reproducible way you can corrupt completion with installing / uninstalling cod, please tell me. I just can't imagine what can go wrong here. cod never touches anything on your system except its own folders that described in README.

[maniac-en]

Sure, I'll try to reproduce the issue in a virtual environment, and I'll Reopen the issue if I'm successful!