Bash completion does not load

[yvdriess]

Describe the bug
Loading an application's custom bash completion script causes tab-completion in a vhs script to spit out inline errors: bash: _get_comp_words_by_ref: command not found.

Setup

• Ubuntu 25.10, KDE Plasma
• apt's bash-completion package

Cause
The cause may be related to vhs's bash invocation skipping profile or bashrc sourcing:

vhs/shell.go

Line 26 in 04e743a

Command: []string{"bash", "--noprofile", "--norc", "--login", "+o", "history"},

It may have worked before because of completion being loaded for login shells? My current system does not have a ~/.login or ~/.bash_login or similar.

Workaround

To work around this, you can add

Copy "source /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion"
Paste
Enter

to the .tape fixes the tab completion. (Inside a Hide/Show to omit from recording.)