Bringing shell completions to the users

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Markus,

thanks for working on the shell completions!

> Now, I recently added a zsh completion script to pdfjam and improved
> texdoc’s zsh completion. So, I wondered how those will be actually
> incorporated in TeX-Live.

Please submit them to the respective upstream authors, in this case only
texdoc it seems, via a PR.

> Is installing shell completions actually inside TeX-Live’s scope? If

No. We don't install anything outside the root of the TL installation.

> not, could you please reach out to the Linux Distribution packagers to
> have them install the completions correctly? Or shall I do this myself?

That is out of our hands. As Karl wrote, you can contact **some** of the
distro maintainers on the tldistro mailing list.

Installation (and/or optional activation) is handled differently from
distribution to distribution, so we cannot even send a recipe for how to
do it.

What **could** be done (albeit not by us, since neither Karl it seems
nor myself, have an idea about completions), is creating a website under
tug.org/texlive/shell-completions.html and try to collect all the
available information:

* pdfjam
	install ...
* texdoc
	install the output of texdoc ...
...

I guess there are some other packages providing shell completion
integration.

Assuming such a page exists, distro maintainers will probably be more
inclined to actually work on the installation. Otherwise they would have
to hunt down all this information by themselves.

Best regards

Norbert

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