Compatibility with bash 3.2

[sio]

Work on #8 is being done here.

Progress report

Adding support for bash 3.2 turns out to be pretty tricky. The following problems need to be solved:

• [ ] bash 3.2 does not support -D flag for complete builtin. It allows to call custom completion functions while completing commands that are not known beforehand
  • [ ] Were there any workarounds at that time? Or did people just hardcode completions for all possible commands?
  • [ ] How did the main bash-completion project work at that time? They've dropped bash < 4.1 in version 1.90
• [x] bash 3.2 does not have compopt builtin (added in 4.0) - workaround in 1a96dcf2a01f93adbffbf8476ce7c4ea96c28fd6
• [ ] readline option show-all-if-ambiguous does not work - seems to be that way only when both menu-complete and show-all-if-ambiguous are in use

Development environment

Here is a Dockerfile for convenient interactive testing on old-bash branch:

FROM ghcr.io/sio/bash-complete-partial-path:bash-3.2

RUN apt-get -y install git && \
    apt-get clean

WORKDIR /workdir
ADD https://gist.github.com/sio/e4f50386ef41188529e176b741132072/raw/Makefile .

ENV PY python3
ENV REPO_BRANCH old-bash

Usage:

$ docker build --rm -t oldbash -
...paste the Dockerfile, send EOF with Ctrl+D...
$ docker run -it oldbash
bash-3.2# make test
...will fetch bash-complete-partial-path, checkout the correct branch and execute automated tests...
bash-3.2# source bcpp/bash_completion && _bcpp --defaults
...to try the completion interactively...

[sio]

While this was a fun exercise in software archaeology, adding support for bash 3.2 turned out quite difficult. I do not have enough time and motivation to work on this anymore.

If anyone wishes to pick up where I left, I will gladly review a PR. If you need help getting there, I'm also available for discussion.