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I ran into an issue where terraform was behaving in an unexpected way due to COMP_LINE being set in the environment. This causes terraform to shift into the auto-completion mode used by bash/zsh/fish shell completion (via the posener/complete lib).
I would have resolved the issue quicker if all variables used by that library were documented here: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/config/environment-variables
Perhaps that document is not supposed to be exhaustive, but it seems there should be some document that details ALL environment variable used by the core terraform CLI, including those used by any libraries upon which it depends, so that one can search for each argument and environment variable used in the execution environment.
Alternatively, those environment variables could be documented in a page specifically about auto-completion (which I did not find), w/ the environment-variables page linking to it.
I don't think we need to describe what they do, just that they're used for completion, so if terraform is behaving unexpectedly they'll show up in a documentation search.
For posener/complete those variables are:
COMP_LINECOMP_POINTCOMP_DEBUG
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I ran into an issue where terraform was behaving in an unexpected way due to
COMP_LINEbeing set in the environment. This causesterraformto shift into the auto-completion mode used by bash/zsh/fish shell completion (via theposener/completelib).I would have resolved the issue quicker if all variables used by that library were documented here: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/config/environment-variables
Perhaps that document is not supposed to be exhaustive, but it seems there should be some document that details ALL environment variable used by the core
terraformCLI, including those used by any libraries upon which it depends, so that one can search for each argument and environment variable used in the execution environment.Alternatively, those environment variables could be documented in a page specifically about auto-completion (which I did not find), w/ the environment-variables page linking to it.
I don't think we need to describe what they do, just that they're used for completion, so if
terraformis behaving unexpectedly they'll show up in a documentation search.For
posener/completethose variables are:COMP_LINECOMP_POINTCOMP_DEBUG