Re: Issue with the man page

[Eric L.]

Hi,

difficult to say without knowing what fish is looking for, and man pages 
are not meant to do automated auto-completion.

Anyway, I can only say that the `--allow-duplicate-timestamps` option is 
new with 2.0.5 and might be the reason for the issue.
This said, I don't see anything suspicious and the man page renders 
properly.

Feel free to place a Merge Request to fix the issue though, once you've 
found the culprit.

If fish also allows to create its autocompletion script from a 
bash-autocompletion script, it would possibly be a better option.

KR, Eric

On 25.10.2020 16:10, David Croll wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> after updating my Ubuntu to 20.10, I have rdiff-backup 2.0.5 now.
>
> There is a curious issue when using the fish console. It has a powerful
> autocompletion feature, both regarding file paths and command options.
>
> We can hit
>
> fish_update_completions
>
> and then the files containing the command completions (suggestions like
> --list-increment-size, --no-fsync) are being generated from the man 
> pages.
>
> But then, fish hits a snag. The completion file generated that way is
> truncated:
>
> david@nitro ~/.l/s/f/generated_completions> cat rdiff-backup.fish
> # rdiff-backup
> # Autogenerated from man page /usr/share/man/man1/rdiff-backup.1.gz
> complete -c rdiff-backup -l allow-duplicate-timestamps --description
> 'This option is only to be used if you encounter the issue of metadata
> mirrors…'
>
> Did man page change in any way that fish_update_completions cannot
> parse? Other man pages are parsed correctly, and fish generates a file
> with all the options.
>
>
>
> With the best regards,
>
>
> David