No autocomplete for fish with ubuntu package?

Incus
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Hello,

I installed the Incus package from the Ubuntu 24.04 repos, but autocomplete doesn’t seem to be working at all. Is there something special I need to do to get it to work? I’m using fish if that makes any difference.

Thanks.

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Incus has autocomplete for the bash shell because the Incus package incus-client comes with the autocomplete instructions. Once you install Incus, you can find the autocomplete rules at

$ ls -l /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/incus 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Σεπ   7 05:19 /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/incus -> /opt/incus/share/bash_completion.d/incus
$

As far as I am aware, there are no fish autocomplete rules for fish yet. Therefore, if you want to port those autocompletion rules to fish, see, for example, here: shell - Convert bash function to fish's - Stack Overflow

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incus completion fish will give you a suitable completion profile.

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Oh, there are already autocompletion rules then for Fish but also for PowerShell and ZSH (apart from Bash).

$ incus completion
Generate the autocompletion script for incus for the specified shell.
See each sub-command's help for details on how to use the generated script.

Usage:
  incus completion [command]

Available Commands:
  bash        Generate the autocompletion script for bash
  fish        Generate the autocompletion script for fish
  powershell  Generate the autocompletion script for powershell
  zsh         Generate the autocompletion script for zsh

Global Flags:
      --debug          Show all debug messages
      --force-local    Force using the local unix socket
  -h, --help           Print help
      --project        Override the source project
  -q, --quiet          Don't show progress information
      --sub-commands   Use with help or --help to view sub-commands
  -v, --verbose        Show all information messages
      --version        Print version number

Use "incus completion [command] --help" for more information about a command.
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The incus-client package does ship with pre-generated completions for fish at /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/incus.fish. I don’t use fish myself, so if there’s something not right about how the completions have been installed please let me know and I can adjust the packaging.

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