getting bash: _command_offset: command not found - on windows, git bash

[AMikkels88]

hi guys,

i can't seem to get this working on windows, have tried to follow instructions in the readme and especially the FAQ section about windows but finding it pretty confusing.

I've got both files bash_completion.sh and complete_alias.sh in the .bash_completion.d directory, and i'm sourcing them in the specified order in my bash_profile file for git bash:
source ~/.bash_completion.d/bash_completion.sh
source ~/.bash_completion.d/complete_alias.sh

I've also added this to the end of my bash profile, as well as trying to specify the aliases by name:
complete -F _complete_alias "${!BASH_ALIASES[@]}"

Not super clear on what i should be editing or adding to the two repo .sh files above, i tried a few things from the readme adding to both files but nothing seemed to work.

Any help much appreciated

[boop5]

+1

[sjerdmann]

Hi,
I just had the same problem and was able to solve it by using an older version of the script bash_completion.
More precisely, version 2.11 seems to work. (By the way, you'll notice with a simple Ctrl + F that function _command_offset is actually defined in this version of the script, contrary to current version 2.14).

To make things clearer than in the README, run these commands to download scripts bash_completion and complete_alias :

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scop/bash-completion/2.11/bash_completion -o ~/.bash_completion
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cykerway/complete-alias/master/complete_alias -o ~/.complete_alias

Then, add these lines to your ~/.bashrc :

. $HOME/.bash_completion
. $HOME/.complete_alias

followed by your own aliases (complete -F _complete_alias foo).