Bash completion for wxmaxima

Bug #598737 reported by PeterPall
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bash-completion (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: bash-completion

wxmaxima (which is a great graphical frontend for the even greater mathematical package maxima) accepts only wxmaxima- and maxima-Files as command line parameters and doesn't support any command line options save from that.

The advantage of writing an autocompletion rule that offers files as command line parameters for wxmaxima that this program can actually open would be that this rule excludes files generated by the html- and LaTeX-export functionality - that typically differ from the project's name only by their extension and by the fact that they - although they contain the complete text of the project - no longer can be opened by wxmaxima itself.

Will add a suitable rule for wxmaxima to this bug report. The only thing that might be left to do - partially since I didn't know how to do this and partially since I was not sure if excluding directories from autocompletion might prove to be a good idea in the first place - is to exclude directories ending in _img: They are generated during html export and only contain bitmap images of the formulae.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: bash-completion 1:1.1-3ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-6.7-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 26 09:15:20 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bash-completion

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PeterPall (peterpall) wrote :
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Peter Cordes (peter-cordes) wrote :

submitted upstream: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=314899&group_id=100114&atid=413095

_install_xspec '!.@(wxm?(x)|mac)' wxmaxima
is all it takes these days, prob. don't want to make a separate file.

Changed in bash-completion (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
Changed in bash-completion (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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