I want bash to complete .tex whenever I type vim file. and there’s a file.tex in the directory. This was driving me nuts since it was completing all the LaTeX aux files etc whenever I did it, but I found (again) /etc/bash_completion which has the line
| complete -f -X ‘*.@(o | so | so.!(conf) | a | rpm | gif | GIF | jp?(e)g | JP?(E)G | mp3 | MP3 | mp?(e)g | MPG | avi | AVI | asf | ASF | ogg | OGG | class | CLASS)’ vi vim gvim rvim view rview rgvim rgview gview |
| which is obviously the line in question. all i did was add (aux | out | log to these filetypes and put that line in my bashrc and its working much better. frankly this was just lucky, since i dont think more than about 50-200 people in the world really understand bash completion very well. |
there’s an incredible programmer i came across who wrote something interesting called compleat.
also i rediscovered FIGNORE, which is a list of file extensions for bash to ignore on all completions. just export it from your .bashrc.