Inconsistent completions decorations

[Jai-JAP]

The completions for commands installed in /usr/bin (by package manager) have colored completions, but the ones installed manually in /usr/local/bin has it monochrome.

Is this a Bug or a configuration error? Help me fix it

[akinomyoga]

The option descriptions of the former (sudo) are generated by ble.sh's built-in analysis of the man pages, so it also generates the type of the candidate (in this case "option"). The command descriptions of the latter (kubectl) are generated by the completion settings provided by kubectl, but kubectl doesn't provide the type of each completion candidate, so it's not highlighted.

[Jai-JAP]

There's also another issue I am facing, when using alias kube=kubectl with https://github.com/cykerway/complete-alias, the completions for kube <tab> on a new terminal are broken as below

but after running kubectl <tab> once and then repeating the same, it is fixed just as in the kubectl command

How do i fix this ? Is there a native way to add progcomp for all aliases in ble.sh?

[akinomyoga]

Just don't use cykerway/complete-alias and set shopt -s progcomp_alias. cykerway/complete-alias is known to be broken with ble.sh ¹. There is still a difference between cykerway/complete-alias and ble.sh's implementation of progcomp_alias in the decision on which completion setting to use when two completion settings are provided, but it's an issue with the setup.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh/issues/561#issuecomment-2669852692 ↩

[Jai-JAP]

Thanks that worked.

[Jai-JAP]

There's one small issue still occuring, I have cat aliased to bat -p. But it still gives the completions for the cat command instead of bat. Guide me how to fix that

[akinomyoga]

complete -r cat