I would like these two partially entered commands to complete the same way:
$ ca<Tab> $ sudo ca<Tab> The first completion nicely takes into account any previous "complete -I" setting (because it is completing the initial word of a command). But the second completion relies on a programmable completion, and in Bash 5.2 it is hard to program the same behavior. In particular, the programmed completion cannot easily tell Bash to obey my -I setting. I can get _almost_ the same effect by having the "sudo" compspec run "compgen -c" (generate completions over command names), but that would ignore my -I setting. I would like to be able to say "compgen -I" in my compspec and have Bash generate completions as if this were the initial word of a command, applying whatever settings it would to an actual initial word. < Stephen
