Bash on Debian - Add option to set custom composer dir variable

[stecman]

Bash on Debian - Add option to set custom composer dir variable

[stecman]

To prevent others running into this, I've updated the readme and hooks to find the correct dir using composer config --global home 👍

[stecman]

I avoided doing that, since composer config home --global is relatively slow at around 100ms on my machine (as mentioned in the commit message above). I find slow shell start-up a pain, so I was mitigating this for others - the time all adds up, and next thing you know you have to wait several seconds to be able to use a new shell.

If someone was ok with the slow down, they could use the current generate-hook script in their shell profile like this:

source <(source $(composer config home --global)/vendor/stecman/composer-bash-completion-plugin/generate-hook)

[stecman]

Can you confirm this command outputs the directory you need?

echo $XDG_DATA_HOME/composer

That's mentioned in the composer docs but not checked in this plugin at the moment.

[natanfelles]

Hello! 😃

No. Terminal in/out:

echo $XDG_DATA_HOME/composer
/composer

[stecman]

Oh I see, Composer explicitly defaults to $HOME/.config/composer if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty/not set.

[natanfelles]

Hi, @stecman .

Initially I had modified this line in your project.

But revising more, I just modified my .bashrc and solved:

COMPOSER_HOME="$HOME/.config/composer"
source "$COMPOSER_HOME/vendor/stecman/composer-bash-completion-plugin/hooks/bash-completion"

Completions are working fine now.

Thank you!

[natanfelles]

Wow that's a smarter way. I'll update here too. Thanks!

[natanfelles]

You could update the generate-hook file to:

# Generate registration code to go in a shell profile

_composercomplete_hook_dir="$(composer config home --global)/vendor/stecman/composer-bash-completion-plugin/hooks"

if [ ! -z $BASH_VERSION ]; then
	source $_composercomplete_hook_dir/bash-completion
fi

if [ ! -z $ZSH_VERSION ]; then
	source $_composercomplete_hook_dir/zsh-completion
fi

unset _composercomplete_hook_dir