Also noticed that if I add that /app/bin to PATH env it doesn't work as expected.

bin/console se [TAB] works
php bin/console se [TAB] not working

Hi! Thanks for the reports. Unfortunately, both of them are "can't fix" issues. As "application writers", the only thing we can do is provide a completion script to the shell. In the end, it's up to the shell's logic to run our completion script in the correct cases.

In bash, you configure the bash completion utility using the complete command:

• _sf_{{ COMMAND_NAME }} is the completion function defined before it (for Symfony apps: _sf_console)
• {{ COMMAND_NAME }} is the shell program you want to bind this completion to, console in this case

I'm not sure why /app/bin in PATH doesn't work. As for aliases, I'm 90% sure that bash completion doesn't natively support aliases (e.g. Zsh and Fish do support it natively).

The same applies to php bin/console. In this case, the shell completion will try to find a completion function for the php program (and not the bin/console program - this is "just" an argument of the php program). As there is a lot more to the php program than just bin/console, we don't provide a completion script for it.

If there is someone with great bash skills that is aware of a way to make aliases work, please contribute or comment :) Otherwise, I'm afraid all I can do is close this one.

Imho - we should at least keep this open a bit more - maybe someone who has some insights for this would spot this easier.

Previously I used - https://github.com/bamarni/symfony-console-autocomplete - for this and it worked with PATH and alias solution - maybe there is something that could help with this one.

That's interesting. Which install method did you use for the autocomplete functionality?

Just couple of things on my Dockerfile_dev - this is just for development and not used on production;

ENV PATH "$PATH:/home/dev/.composer/vendor/bin:/app/vendor/bin:/app/bin"

RUN composer --no-cache global require bamarni/symfony-console-autocomplete

RUN echo 'eval "$(symfony-autocomplete --shell bash)"' >> /home/dev/.bashrc

or did you mean how I setup that Symfony autocomplete feature in my setup?

Are you aware that autocomplete feature is provided by the shell at OS level?

Are you aware that autocomplete feature is provided by the shell at OS level?

Yes, I know that - but when I was using that - https://github.com/bamarni/symfony-console-autocomplete - autocomplete also worked with PATH and alias use, so I think that ./bin/console completion bash is missing something.