** Description changed: ghc/ghci right now do not tab-complete in a useful way in Bash. GHC has an official Bash tab-completion script available at https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/tree/master/utils/completion , which strongly implies that it *should* be available for users who have turned on Bash completion using the 'bash-completion' package & - invocation. But as far as I can tell, it is not actually shipped, much - less enabled (eg. `dpkg -L ghc | grep -e bash -e complet` lists - nothing). + invocation. The [bash-completion](https://github.com/scop/bash- + completion) git repo is completely silent on Haskell/ghc as far as I can + tell, so it does not seem to be the case that you are supposed to be + getting it from them rather than GHC. But as far as I can tell, it is + not actually shipped in the current GHC package on Ubuntu or Debian, + much less enabled (eg. `dpkg -L ghc | grep -e bash -e complet` lists + nothing). I am told that Mac versions may ship it, but I can't check + that easily. The `ghc` package should include this Bash completion script, so Bash users can at least `source` it and use it. Better yet, the ghc package should also enable it however appropriately, so Bash users who have enabled advanced completion get it automatically without further work. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 Package: ghc 9.4.7-3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-45.45-generic 6.8.12 Uname: Linux 6.8.0-45-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Sun Sep 22 18:25:06 2024 InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-04 (141 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424) SourcePackage: ghc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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