Edit: OK. Seems like I might have misread the situation. Thought you meant program options as in:
$ mplayer_alias -pla<tab><tab>
-playing-msg -playlist
$
but guess it is file completion. I don't know, but give it a go.
As a quick fix this should work:
complete -f -o default ee
Giving:
$ ee<tab><tab>
file1 file2 file3
$
as of Programmable Completion Builtins. E.g. the -X pattern can be useful. E.g. to exclude .swp and .swo files:
complete -f -X '*.sw[op]' ee
only show .zip, .ZIP:
complete -f -o default -X '!*.+(zip|ZIP)' my_unzip_alias
some might need you to add shopt -s extglob in configuration file.
OLD Answer:
You could try out something like this in your .bash_completion.
At least as a starter.
The core idea is to simply add complete for the alias using the existing
complete script for the real program. Here I assume that they are all in the format:
complete -F _complete_function_from_original program_name
You can get what it is by executing: complete -p program_name. Best to check first.
For some methods like apt-get one can use only alias + load:
_load_comp_hack apt-get myalias
For others like mplayer one need a function wrapper, as in e.g.:
myalias() { mplayer "$@"; }
|
+--- Could be messy
It is quite possible there is a better way to solve this, but has worked fine for my use. I mostly use it for wrapper scripts where I extend the functionality of the original program. Have not used it on aliases.
I do not feel to safe on this hack, but you could see if it works.
_load_comp_hack()
{
local cc=
# Make sure completion scripts are sourced.
# Report error if source fail.
if . "/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
# Extract the completion function used by the "real" program.
if cc="$(complete -p "$1" | cut -d' ' -f3)"; then
# Add it to the alias
complete -F "$cc" "$2"
return 0
fi
fi
echo "bash-completion '$1' for '$2' not found."
}
_load_comp_hack mplayer mplad
_load_comp_hack apt-get z
| |
| +----- Alias, script or function
+------------- Real function
Some programs use more general completion like _longopt, by which the
source file won't be located. Usually it is no need to source either, so a
simpler variant could be:
_load_comp_hack()
{
local cc=
if cc=$(complete -p "$1" | cut -d' ' -f3); then
complete -F "$cc" "$2"
fi
}
One problem here, IIRC, is that some completion scripts are not loaded until first run, as in first:
prog tabtab. As an alternative perhaps add it as an else if sourcing of file fails.
Best Answer
To find out what commands are masked by aliases, do something like this:
Explanation
aliasalone lists defined aliases andsedextracts their name. The while loop runstype -taon each of them andawkprints the lines that both contain alias and file.