[Aptitude-devel] Bug#435829: aptitude-[create|run]-state-bundle commands very annoying

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> >Given aptitude-create-state-bundle/aptitude-run-state-bundle appear to
> >be only for debug purposes, could they be moved to /usr/lib/aptitude or
> >/usr/share/aptitude so that when someone wants to do a debug state save,
> >they just have to type the whole path to the script.  Many other
> >packages put rarely needed scripts in such a place to avoid poluting the
> >normal PATH environment.
> 
> After almost a decade, things got worse over the years after this report
> (with the binary named aptitude-curses and the now-disabled
> aptitude-gtk, etc).  I think that it's too late to address this now.

JFTR: apti<Tab> works for many years without issues:

→ aptitude<cursor-sits-here-after-pressing-Tab>
completing external command
aptitude
completing alias
aptitude-also-via-dependency          aptitude-just-recommended
aptitude-review-unmarkauto-libraries  aptitude-upgradable-to-experimental 
aptitude-dpigs                        aptitude-newer-than-in-archive
aptitude-upgradable-to-buildd                                             

Not sure what zsh makes differently, but it successfully hid that
problem from me for as long as I can think back. (And I'm the one of
the two current Aptitude maintainers who occassionally uses the
aptitude-*-state-bundle commands.)

Only if I type aptitude-c<Tab>, these commands show up:

→ aptitude-c<cursor-sits-here-after-pressing-Tab>
completing external command
aptitude-create-state-bundle  aptitude-curses     

> The solution is simple anyway, just adding the extra space, or creating
> aliases if the same mistakes happen too often, etc.

Or switching to zsh. ;-)

		SCNR, Axel
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