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9 years ago The idea sounds great (this is a common annoyance!), but I doubt it is feasible. I have yet to see a way to hook into bash's extensible autocompletion for an external program (which would allow us to introspect, say, aptitude).
(I don't mean to pile on bloat; and I have no idea how the underlying stuff works--i.e. whether it's provided by the shell or something else.) Sometimes I am typing in a command, and I use tab to complete, but I wonder if anything is happening, until several seconds later does it finally complete or not (this usually happens for operand completion, like with a package name for
apt-get); I then have to correct what I typed while it was busy. It would be neat if there's an animated cursor or something letting us know to be patient. Would this apply to finalterm? I still have not had a chance to use it yet.Want to back this issue? Post a bounty on it! We accept bounties via Bountysource.