Bug#669618: bash-completion should autocomplete bash alias as well

I just stumbled on the same problem and after some experimentation, I'm sourcing a modified completion loader at the end of my .bashrc (specifically after the original completion code is loaded). _custom_completion_loader() { local cmd="${1##*/}" local cmdt=$(type -t "$1") local com

Bug#669618: bash-completion should autocomplete bash alias as well

Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.0-1ubuntu3 Followup-For: Bug #669618 A related problem is that aliasing an existing command stops bash-completion working. For example, I had: alias make=colormake And that stops bash-completion from working for either make or colormake. The code that gets b

Bug#669618: bash-completion should autocomplete bash alias as well

Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.99-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream i think is wanted and feasible to make bash-completion to autocomplete something like alias aptinstall='apt-get install' just in the same way it would autocomplete in bash shell after typing those words either buildin