From: [email protected]

Package: bash
Version: 3.0-5
Severity: wishlist

I made a makefile with some implicit rules, but I can't
tab-complete filenames to match it. Here is the makefile (4
lines long):

%.html : %.txt
pdbtxt2html $< $@
%.txt : %.pdb
txt2pdbdoc -d $< $@

So for instance, if I have a file called foo.pdb, and I type:
make foo.html
I will see the following results:

txt2pdbdoc -d foo.pdb foo.txt
pdbtxt2html foo.txt foo.html
rm foo.txt

I would like to be able to do:

make fo<tab>

and see as the possible completions (assuming no other files
starting with 'fo'):

foo.txt foo.html

Built-in implicit rule completion would be nice as well. For
instance, having a file called foo.c laying around, I do:

make fo<tab>

and see the following possible completions (again, assuming no
other files starting with 'fo' exist):

foo foo.o

While I am wishing, also completing standard makefile variables
would be nice too, like so:

make foo CFL<tab>

would expand to CFLAGS= and then possibly show some of the
compiler options by using the cc completions. Similarly,

make foo LDF<tab>

would expand to LDFLAGS= and possibly show some libraries in the
library path.

thanks,
Brian Minton


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