How can we plug this into our own bash autocompletions?

[Nxt3]

I've created a function in my .bash_profile that I want to include autocompletions from yarn for.

This is what I'm trying:

complete -o default -o nospace -F _yarn yarnupgrade

but I get the following error:

bash: completion: function '_yarn' not found

Ideally I'd like to only autocomplete the choices output from yarn upgrade.

Otherwise, yarn completion works great!

[dsifford]

.bash_profile is loaded before .bashrc so depending on where you have the completions being loaded, your call to complete Is likely happening before the completions are sourced.

[Nxt3]

I'm doing something similar with git: complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g and that works fine. It's only the yarn one.

[Nxt3]

The completions are being loaded in .bash_profile as well.

[Nxt3]

So _git is working differently since git-completion has nothing to do with bash-completion@2.

I'm thinking it's not possible to access the functions defined in your autocompletion globally. 🤔

[dsifford]

Yes it is.

[dsifford]

Here's an example from my dotfiles....

https://github.com/dsifford/.dotfiles/blob/ed2be686ffc689c66814e5891cada8aa70e4bbdd/local/lib/bashrc.d/completion-aliases.sh#L52-L55

[Nxt3]

Can I ask what that's doing (like, step-by-step)? I've never seen something in bash like that.

[dsifford]

# IF the yarn command exists in the PATH
command -v yarn \
  # AND a completion was able to be sourced for yarn
  && __load_completion yarn \
  # AND after sourcing the yarn completions, there exists a function available named _yarn
  && command -v _yarn \
  # THEN complete my alias for yarn "y" with the yarn completions
  && complete -F _yarn y

[Nxt3]

Awesome. This helped me achieve what I was looking for. Thank you so much!