No autocomplete when using sudo about argcomplete HOT 3 OPEN

Argcomplete completion works with sudo when registering completion targets individually with register-python-argcomplete (e.g., eval "$(register-python-argcomplete $(pwd)/my-awesome-script.py)").

Unfortunately, fixing it with global completion is tricky. In global completion, the function is not relying on bash to recognize the completion target by name like "my-awesome-script.py" or "git", instead it's given a name and must find out on its own whether it's a Python script that should be completed. This relies on complete -D, which works fine in general, but when you type sudo <...><TAB>, bash completion actually invokes _command_offset, which appears to not be compatible with complete -D at all.

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So basically, if I understand correctly, the only way to make argcomplete global completion work with sudo is to patch _command_offset, which is part of the core bash-completion distribution, to be compatible with complete -D.

The next step then is to open an issue upstream and start a patch against bash-completion.

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Cool, thanks for looking into this. I'll leave the issue submission to you as you're better informed of the underlying issues.

Thanks,

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