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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Andrey Butirsky <butirsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: sudo autocompletion
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 18:03:05 +0100
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On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:53 PM Andrey Butirsky <butirsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what is the most "canonical" way to get sudo <command> autocompleted for
> casual user?

It just works for me after calling compinit without having to set any
options or styles.

  sudo -u ro<TAB>  => romka (my username)
  sudo -u romka fgr<TAB> => fgrep
  sudo -u romka fgrep --a => --after-context

What doesn't work for you out of the box?

Roman.

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