Re: [RFC/PATCH] completion: complete pretty format placeholders

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

bash oddity?  Back when I started the completion I had a lot
of trouble with stuff like --pretty=<TAB>, or foo:<TAB> because
bash more often than not tried to second guess what I was doing.
I wonder if you are running against that here.

Thanks for the heads up.

To be honest, I'm not sure what value this provides.  Its just as
many characters to type, isn't it, and it doesn't offer me any help
as to which placeholder should be inserted to get the value I want.
"Was it ae or aE that I wanted here?  WTF, manpage time!".

Yeah, you're probably right. Throw it on the dust pile ;-)