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GnuPG should adopt and maintain the bash completion for gpg
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http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org maintains a ruleset for tab completion of gpg (and a separate one for gpg2, which is only subtly different).

I think that GnuPG should take control of these completion functions and ship them in the upstream tarball.

This way, if new features are added, gpg has a good way to make sure that the tab-completion for bash users is updated accordingly.

bash-completion upstream has some guidance for how maintainers can do this cleanly.

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dkg created this task.Sep 13 2017, 9:42 PM
dkg renamed this task from GnuPG should adopt and maintain the bash completion to GnuPG should adopt and maintain the bash completion for gpg.Sep 13 2017, 10:14 PM
• werner triaged this task as Normal priority.Sep 14 2017, 1:59 PM
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gpg --dump-options

should be useful to create such completion stuff. No context specific completion but this is imho anyway a misfeature.

• werner added a comment.Oct 10 2017, 9:05 AM

I see that the completion script already uses --dump-options :-)

Anyway, given that I dislike the context specific auto-completion I am not the best person to maintain such rules. If someone else wants do do this, there is certainly space in the gnupg tarball to distribute these rules.

thesamesam added a subscriber: thesamesam.Sep 1 2023, 5:31 AM