Default oshrc to ship with oils?

[nisbet-hubbard]

Just wanted to mention that distros can ship default configuration files, with the option to not overwrite user changes, eg https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_configuration_files.

Since bash has minimal default config files and I see you’ve made a start here https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/How-To-Test-OSH#my-oshrc-file, maybe at some point it’d be good idea to formalise this into a default oshrc?

[andychu]

Hm yeah this is a good question

I think there is a tension between Oils working the same everywhere, and having each distro customize it

I think the main thing that is local to a distro is completion of commands that are available, but based on my experience with bash-completion it is hard to get that right ...

I think fish does a bit better -- as far as I remember, they have a Python script that scrapes man pages, and generates .fish files in a directory that can be loaded at runtime

I'm not sure how distros actually integrate that, but I'd be interested in finding out

[nisbet-hubbard]

Looking at Neal Gompa’s spec file for Fedora’s fish package, what he did is he installed a completion directory during cmake:

    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=%{_sysconfdir} \
    -Dextra_completionsdir=%{_datadir}/%{name}/vendor_completions.d \
    -Dextra_functionsdir=%{_datadir}/%{name}/vendor_functions.d \
    -Dextra_confdir=%{_datadir}/%{name}/vendor_conf.d

Packagers of other software are then asked to each install their .fish file using the %{fish_completions_dir} macro: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ca/packaging-guidelines/ShellCompletions/.