bash completion error with 0.17

[Jani Nikula]

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014, Anand Buddhdev <arhbkb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jani,
>
> I already have bash-completion installed, although it's version 1.3.

At a glance, it seems _init_completion was introduced in bash-completion
1.90:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=32dbe76784acc39b17ee9ca7bc21c28f4f2b23b5

$ git tag --contains 32dbe76784acc39b17ee9ca7bc21c28f4f2b23b5
1.90
1.99
2.0
2.1


BR,
Jani.


>
>
> On 2 February 2014 11:44, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 02 Feb 2014, Anand Buddhdev <arhbkb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi people,
>> >
>> > I've just discovered notmuch. I've installed version 0.17 on my Mac using
>> > Homebrew. I've also built a forked mutt with notmuch support, and I'm
>> > exploring setting up virtual folders, and keeping all mail in a single
>> "All
>> > Mail" Maildir, with everything just tagged, a la Gmail :) I love it.
>> >
>> > I have one issue to report: when I type "notmuch" at the command-line and
>> > press tab, bash completion gives me the following error:
>> >
>> > $ notmuch -bash: _init_completion: command not found
>> >
>> > Looks like something is missing in the bash completion script. I'd
>> > appreciate if someone could make a patch.
>>
>> You'll need the bash-completion package [1] too. I'm not sure about
>> versions, but likely reasonably recent.
>>
>> The trivial "fix" patch would likely just check for the existence of
>> _init_completion, and refuse to complete without it. For anything
>> fancier, patches welcome...
>>
>>
>> BR,
>> Jani.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org/
>>