Bug#864493: notmuch: bash completion eats typed option

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Łukasz Stelmach
<l.stelmach at samsung.com> wrote:
> I looked carefuly and I am sure I use only packaged bash-completion
> configuration. I looked also at other commands which use the
> --long-option=VALUE pattern (e.g. mkinitrd --with=, nslookup -class=)
> and completions for them fail the same way, so it seems more like
> bash-completion issue rather than notmuch one.

mkinitrd --with= and nslookup -class= completions work for me just
fine. Indeed does not look like a notmuch specific issue to me either.

> Is there a general way to tell the completion engine not to replace
> anything before (and including) "="?

I thought _init_completion -s parameter would cover it.

What do you have in $COMP_WORDBREAKS?

Do you have a customized ~/.inputrc?


BR,
Jani.